Health Care Reform

Why Are Patient Groups Silent on High Drug Prices?

By NWHN Staff | Apr 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Why Are Patient Groups Silent on High Drug Prices?

NWHN Executive Director Cynthia Pearson is quoted in an article discussing the silence of patient advocacy groups in regards to high drug prices.

Conservative Courts Are Coming for Our Health Care: How We Fight Back

By Sarah Christopherson | Jan 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Conservative Courts Are Coming for Our Health Care: How We Fight Back

Two cases offer a warning about how far health care opponents will go to warp the federal judiciary to their ends — and what we must do to fight them.

Affordable vs. Accessible: Health Care Through the Eyes of Women 

By NWHN Staff | Jan 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Affordable vs. Accessible: Health Care Through the Eyes of Women 

For the past five years, U.S. residents have listed the accessibility and affordability of health care as their top concern, according to Gallup. Going back further, they’ve reported “personally worrying a great deal” about health care since 2001. Voter concerns…

Fighting Fear With Facts: What to Know About the Public Charge Rule

By NWHN Staff | Sep 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Fighting Fear With Facts: What to Know About the Public Charge Rule

Last month, the Trump administration finalized a radical new rule as part of their larger attack on immigrant communities. Known as the “public charge” rule, it’s a particularly cruel and short-sighted example of the administration’s on-going attempt to limit immigration of poor brown communities, primarily from Latin America (specifically Central America), as well as harm  immigrant communities already residing within the U.S.

Medicaid work requirements are hurting women and families

By NWHN Staff | Sep 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Medicaid work requirements are hurting women and families

Work requirements and other bureaucratic obstacles imposed by states on their Medicaid populations are designed with one goal in mind: make it so difficult to comply with the rules that hundreds of thousands of people lose their health care.

Dying from Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements

By Sarah Christopherson | Sep 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Dying from Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements

GOP states are rushing to add cumbersome new requirements that will force workers to lose coverage.

Take Action: Congress Can Save Title X

By Sarah Christopherson | Aug 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Take Action: Congress Can Save Title X

On Monday, reproductive health clinics across the nation withdrew from the federal Title X program rather than submit plans for complying with the Trump administration’s radical new “gag” rule.

Two-Year Budget Deal a Win for Women’s Health? Not If We Lose Title X

By Sarah Christopherson | Aug 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Two-Year Budget Deal a Win for Women’s Health? Not If We Lose Title X

The appropriations process likely represents the best chance we have to overturn dangerous Trump rules eviscerating Title X.

The NWHN Statement on the Title X Gag Rule Taking Effect

By Evita Almassi | Jun 24, 2019 | Comments Off on The NWHN Statement on the Title X Gag Rule Taking Effect

Last year, the Trump-Pence administration rushed through a proposed rule to gut Title X, the country’s family planning program to help low-income individuals access affordable birth control and reproductive health care.

Protecting and Expanding Medicaid Means Confronting Racism Baked into the Program

By Cindy Pearson | Apr 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Protecting and Expanding Medicaid Means Confronting Racism Baked into the Program

Why is getting covered through Medicaid so much harder than Medicare? There are lots of superficial answers but, at heart, the answer is “racism.”