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December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision
dfitzgerald Comments
The Trump administration's effort to weaken, if not destroy, the Affordable Care Act's landmark birth control provision, also includes a religious exemption for an array of employers, that as NHeLP explains in its comments to HHS opposing the exemption will "erect significant barriers to employees and their dependents to…
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December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Moral Exemptions from ACA Birth Control Provision
dfitzgerald Comments
The Trump administration's "Interim Final Rule for Moral Exemptions and Accommodations" for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s contraceptions provision flouts the intent of the ACA by allowing a wildly broad exemption for all kinds of employers, non and for-profit, to cite "moral" reasons for refusing to provide no-cost, FDA…
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August 11, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health
Fabiola Carrión Issue Brief
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides vital and comprehensive reproductive health care for millions of low-income women in the state that would be endangered if efforts in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and impose draconian cuts on the Medicaid program are successful , writes Senior Attorney Fabiola Carrión…
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August 4, 2017
NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called "Healthy Texas Women" Medicaid demonstration waiver. The comments submitted by NHeLP Legal Director Jane Perkins note that HHS has limited ability to waive provisions of Medicaid law. HHS "may only…
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June 29, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under Senate Bill: CA Implications
Amy Chen Issue Brief
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding threatens California women's access to reproductive health care services. Senior Attorney Amy Chen and NHeLP summer intern Emily Hayes explain the "Top Ten Threats to Women's Reproductive Health Under the Senate's bill to Repeal the…
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June 26, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Senate’s ACA Repeal Bill
Amy Chen Issue Brief
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding poses serious threats the health of low income women by limiting their access to reproductive health care services. Senior Attorney Amy Chen details in this issue brief the key ways the Senate bill would…
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NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision

NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Moral Exemptions from ACA Birth Control Provision

Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health

NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project

Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under Senate Bill: CA Implications

Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Senate’s ACA Repeal Bill