National Health Law Program Inc

See schedule o.national policy:the national health law program's health policy work advocates for protection and expansion of health and civil rights of low-income individuals and families and underserved communities. The national health law program's health policy efforts in 2024 included but were not limited to the following: (1) advocating to protect the medicaid program from anticipated efforts to cut funding and impose barriers to enrollment and access to services; (2) working to prevent damage caused by the end of the public health emergency, through advocacy at the federal level and support to advocates at the state level; (3) providing legal and policy support to national and state based coalitions working to protect, and where possible, expand access to health care for low-income individuals, families and underserved communities; (4) providing legal support and problem-solving expertise to policymakers, advocates, and providers as legal issues arise at the administrative (regulatory) and state implementation levels; (5) providing legal support to policymakers to consider new models for providing health care to all.during 2024 the national health law program again increased itssubstantial efforts to counter health care disparities and defend civil rights laws, including by advocating for strong regulations to enforce section 1557, the anti-discrimination provision of the affordable care act.in 2024, national health law program staff provided state and federal health care advocates legal assistance for myriad policy and legal concerns of low-income individuals and families. Staff members were also involved in and/or featured in scores of conferences and training events. Staff also produced numerous fact sheets, issue briefs, q&a's, and additional resources that were shared via listservs, email, social media platforms, press outreach, and other means. Much of this work product was also posted on the organization's website.

See schedule o.california policy:in 2024, nhelp engaged in significant efforts to help develop and implement improvements to california's publicly funded health care system. Some of the key efforts included: working with the state to implement a new law expanding full-scope medi-cal to all adults regardless of immigration status; advocating for and working with the state to improve access to behavioral health care throught the medi-cal program; insuring continuity of care for people transitioning from one managed care plan to another; continuing ongoing efforts to expand access to sexual and reproductive health care, including doula and contraceptive services; and implementing changes to medi-cal through the california advancing and innovating medi-cal (calaim) initiative.

The national health law program engaged in a number of targeted projects to support our primary goals.