Archive for April, 2012
Webinar Re-Cap: Health Care Reform in Your State- Making it Work for People with HIV
Over 200 advocates joined us for a recent webinar focused on state-level implementation of health care reform and how to make it work for people with HIV. If you missed the webinar or want to re-live the experience you can view a video recording (click on the image below), download slides and access other HIV [...]
Building the Affordable Care Act for people with HIV, piece by piece
The major provisions of the Affordable Care Act will kick off in a year and a half — right around the corner. Despite the looming Supreme Court decision and the uncertainty of the elections, implementation is moving along — faster than even we can keep track of. Fortunately, the Center for Health Law and Policy [...]
Register for the webinar! Health Care Reform in Your State: Making it Work for People with HIV
Health care reform will revolutionize access to health care for people with HIV. But to reach its full potential, HIV advocates need a seat at a table, and nowhere is that more important than in the states. Click here to register for the webinar. States will have to make hundreds of decisions to make health [...]
California’s Low Income Health Programs and People with HIV
Low Income Health Projects, or LIHPs, are new county-based Medi-Cal expansion programs designed to extend health coverage to uninsured adults. These programs were formed as a result of California’s “Bridge to Health Care Reform” Section 1115, Medicaid Waiver that was approved in late 2010. While the concept for this waiver was a bold step toward [...]
HMAC’s Elections Toolkit is Here!
With health care reform, Ryan White and the public health infrastructure hanging in the balance, there has never been a more important election year for HIV/AIDS advocates than 2012. Thankfully, we’ve got you covered. The HIV Med Access Campaign (HMAC) is pleased to present the 2012 Elections Advocacy Toolkit for AIDS advocates across the nation. [...]
Questions on Essential Health Benefits? HHS has answers.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released a series of questions and answers about essential health benefits that provide additional insight into the approach HHS plans to take. (Check out more about essential health benefits and the HIV community’s comments in response to the bulletin here.) So, what are our take-aways [...]
Help! I Can’t Keep Track of Health Reform!
The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School/Treatment Access Expansion Project, has developed the Healthcare Reform Monitoring Report (pdf), highlighting some of the most significant pieces of federal healthcare reform implementation. Get your copy of the report here. Why should you read it, you ask? Well, health reform is complicated. This [...]
Health care reform helping people with HIV now: PCIP + ADAP
PCIP + ADAP is more than alphabet soup – it’s proof that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is helping people with HIV right now. Our friends over at the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) released March 30 a fact sheet and map showing the states that are coordinating Pre-Existing Condition Plans [...]