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  • Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)

    The so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), pending in the U.S. Senate, would repeal progressive health care reforms brought about by the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA), especially harming women's access to reproductive health care services. In this fact sheet, Senior Attorney Amy Chen explains how AHCA would severely…

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  • The Faces of Medicaid Expansion: Filling Gaps in Coverage

    Medicaid expansion via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided tens of millions of individual adults, mostly low-income workers, people with disabling conditions, students, and parents and family caregivers, with critical health care coverage that is strengthening their lives and communities, as Senior Policy Analyst David Machledt notes in a…

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  • Waivers of Medicaid Requirements – A Quick Review

    In a companion piece to Background to Medicaid and Section 1115 of the Social Security Act, Legal Director Jane Perkins and Managing Attorney of the DC office Mara Youdelman provide a brief review of how certain Medicaid requirements may be waived. They conclude, in part, that "Section 1115 of the…

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  • Lessons from California

    The House Republicans' "American Health Care Act" would have harmed California disproportionately, NHeLP Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk writes in this month's "Lessons from California." She notes,  "As many as 14 million Medi-Cal individuals, 9.3 million who are people of color, stood to lose coverage or significant reductions in services…

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  • Lessons from California

    Kim Lewis

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health care coverage to millions of previously uninsured Californians, and also ushered in technological innovations to streamline the state's eligibility and enrollment systems. In February's "Lessons from California," Managing Attorney of the LA Office Kimberly Lewis examines these innovations, and notes that they…

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  • Threats to the Affordable Care Act and Women’s Reproductive Health

    In this fact sheet, Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that have helped improve access to reproductive health care services for tens of millions of low income women. If the ACA and Medicaid expansion are repealed, Chen writes, it would likely make it…

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