by Jordana Choucair | Aug 1, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is reportedly “looking very closely” at protecting abortion access for veterans. VA Secretary Denis McDonough said that the agency will ensure that veterans can access the “full slate of that care,” but declined to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 27, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Biden administration approved three more states’ plans to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to women up to one year after pregnancy. Kansas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts join 15 other states and the District of Columbia in extending coverage for people...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 26, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Biden Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will restore health care nondiscrimination rules on gender identity and sexual orientation. The regulations will reinstate Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 22, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Eight House Republicans joined Democrats to pass a bill protecting the right to contraception. The measure would penalize those who restrict access to oral, emergency, and long-acting reversible contraceptives, and other birth control methods. The legislation, which...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 20, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The White House is considering leveraging the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to protect nationwide access to abortion medication. Following the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal, Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights groups have...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 15, 2022 | Access & Coverage
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis found that 610,000 postpartum women were disenrolled from Medicaid within a year of giving birth. Of those, 31 percent were disenrolled within six months after delivery and 40 percent were disenrolled within a year. Among...
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