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September 19, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Amy Chen Issue Brief
NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the major threats to women's ability to access comprehensive reproductive care posed by the Graham-Cassidy bill, which would repeal the Affordable Care and impose drastic cuts on Medicaid. The measure's per capita cap in Medicaid, for example, would result in fewer low-income women being…
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September 19, 2017
Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill: Implications for CA
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
NHeLP attorneys' analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal the Affordable Care and radically cut Medicaid funding explains how California's vulnerable populations would be harmed by the austere measure. Kim Lewis, Fabiola Carrión, and Abbi Coursolle also note that this bill's attack on Medicaid expansion is particularly pernicious in…
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September 15, 2017
Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Mara Youdelman and Kimberly Lewis Issue Brief
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson (hereinafter "Graham-Cassidy") this week introduced a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and eliminate the current financing structure of Medicaid. This bill, similar but in some ways worse than the failed Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA 2.0),…
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September 13, 2017
CHIP’s Role in California’s Medi-Cal Program
Alicia Emanuel Issue Brief
The federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is an important supplement to health coverage that Medicaid provides to children, Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk explains in this fact sheet. If Congress fails to re-authorize funding for CHIP, Kauk notes that California would "likely be forced to place barriers on expensive…
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August 31, 2017
Access to Mental Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
dfitzgerald Issue Brief
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are a particularly vulnerable population who use an array of mental health services. CSHCN are at increased risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions and require health and related services beyond that required by children generally. In the fall of…
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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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Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill

Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill: Implications for CA

Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill

CHIP’s Role in California’s Medi-Cal Program

Access to Mental Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health