Network of Health Law Partnerships Protects Access to Medicaid, But We Need Your Support
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A joint letter from the National Health Law Program and 22 highly experienced state-based legal advocacy organizations
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People enrolled in Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for nearly 90 million individuals and families, are in trouble. Many congressional protections that kept people covered and made Medicaid a vital life-line during the pandemic have ended and bureaucratic processes are putting millions of low-income and people with disabilities at risk of losing access to health care.
In the face of this nation-wide challenge, a coalition of Health Law Partnerships (HLPs), made up of the National Health Law Program and 22 highly experienced state-based legal advocacy organizations, is taking action to mitigate and reverse these losses of access to health care. By bringing together our collective experience and knowledge, we are better equipped to address these historic challenges. The individuals and families our partnership network represent are among the four million people, many of them children, who are at risk of losing access to the care they need to treat illnesses like cancer, chronic conditions like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and HIV, and a host of other complex medical and behavioral health conditions, in addition to routine care.
Medicaid is a vital pillar in our health care system, which makes these threats all the more destabilizing. Over the last five decades, Medicaid has expanded to cover a wider circle of low- and middle-income people. People with disabilities, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ folks, in particular, have seen gains in coverage and more positive health outcomes. In early 2020,
During the unwinding, each state Medicaid program must redetermine the eligibility of every enrollee. Along with other advocates and stakeholders, we have warned state and federal officials that millions of eligible people are likely to get caught up in a maze of red tape and paperwork and lose access to care - often without due process opportunities to challenge terminations. The impact of these terminations is dire and harmful - and we have seen people cut off of Medicaid midway through chemotherapy or lose access to in-home care for very sick children. The human toll of these bureaucratic mistakes is terrible, but our network of advocates is taking steps to help blunt those harms.
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When preventative measures and public outreach are not enough, the National Health Law Program and our Health Law Partnerships are ready to take legal action. Our HLP network emerged during the previous administration to protect Medicaid enrollees from onerous work requirements and other harmful policies, and we are leveraging that network to once again protect access to care. These partnerships allow us to align deep enforcement and litigation expertise with on-the-ground advocates who know the unique landscape of their particular state and the peculiarities of individual state Medicaid programs.
We are proud of our Health Law Partnerships and know that our collective strength makes access to care possible for millions of low-income and underserved individuals and families. Together, the National Health Law Program and partners across the country work to address existing and emerging obstacles to health care access, as we have rallied together to fight the harm of the unwinding.
But the work is ongoing. We need your support now to protect this vital cohort of interconnected advocates. The stability of the Medicaid program and the health of our nation hang in the balance.
Learn more about our work at healthlaw.org/health-law-partnerships.
This letter has been jointly released by the National Health Law Program and all twenty-two of our Health Law Partnerships.
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* Drew. P Schaffer, Director of Operations |
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* Julia Jisticz, Executive Director |
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Original text here: https://healthlaw.org/news/network-of-health-law-partnerships-protects-access-to-medicaid-but-we-need-your-support/
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