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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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September 7, 2017
Groups Urge Congress for Quick, Bipartisan Action on CHIP
External Source Letter
More than 120 public interest groups are calling on Congress to take immediate, bipartisan action to enact a five-year funding extension for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Since its inception in 1997, CHIP, together with Medicaid, has helped to reduce the numbers of uninsured children by a remarkable…
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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
NHeLP Comments on Arkansas’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHeLP urges the department to reject Arkansas' amended Sec. 1115 Medicaid waiver demonstration project because it is procedurally and substantively flawed and would flout Medicaid law. For example, Arkansas seeks to impose a work requirement on…
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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

Groups Urge Congress for Quick, Bipartisan Action on CHIP

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

NHeLP Comments on Arkansas’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project