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September 6, 2018
HHS Moves to Thwart Family Planning Vital to Low-Income People
Fabiola Carrión and Andy DiAntonio Homepage, Uncategorized
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon publish its new rules on Title X, the only federal program dedicated solely to providing family planning and related preventive services. The proposed changes - published on June 1 - will remove critical care that low-income individuals and families have…
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July 31, 2018
National Health Law Program in Comments to HHS Opposes Changes to Title X
Fabiola De Liban and Catherine McKee Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Health law Program strongly opposes the proposed changes to the Title X program. NHeLP argues that by reconfiguring who receives Title X funding, as well as the scope of family planning methods and services that…
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December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision
Andy DiAntonio 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
Andy DiAntonio 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 and Andy DiAntonio 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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HHS Moves to Thwart Family Planning Vital to Low-Income People

National Health Law Program in Comments to HHS Opposes Changes to Title X

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