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NHeLP’s Analysis of the Supreme Court Decision

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The Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but limiting the federal government’s enforcement authority with respect to the Medicaid expansion, is raising a number of issues, including how health reform implementation moves forward if some states refuse to expand their Medicaid programs. NHeLP and a number of national and state advocates are working with the Administration to address these concerns.

• Five Steps to Understanding Chief Justice Roberts’ Medicaid Decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (Dec. 2012)
• Cindy Mann Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health (Dec. 2012) 
• Sebelius letter to Governors and FAQs on Exchanges, Market Reforms, and Medicaid (Dec. 2012)
• Illegality of Partial Medicaid Expansion – Legal Analysis (Nov. 2012)
• Congressional Research Service - Discretionary Spending in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Oct. 2012)
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Census Data to Target the Uninsured
• NY Times: Administration Advises States to Expand Medicaid or Risk Losing Federal Money (Oct. 2012)
• Congressional Research Service - Traditional Versus Benchmark Benefits Under Medicaid (Aug. 2012)
• GAO – Medicaid Expansion - States’ Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Aug. 2012)
• NHeLP Letter to CMS Re: Partial Medicaid Expansions (Aug. 2012)
• American Hospital Association letter to Sec. Sebelius (Aug. 2012)
• MACPAC: Health care related taxes in Medicaid (Aug. 2012)
• NCSL Legislative Summit 2012: Video interview with Cindy Mann on state flexibility (Aug. 2012)
• National Governors Association letter: Health Care: Decision Points for States Meeting Summary and Appendix Questions (Jul. 2012)
• Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition: Medicaid Expansion Letter to Governors (Aug. 2012)
• Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition: Medicaid Expansion Letter to Legislators (Aug. 2012)
• CMS Letter to Republican Governors Association (July 2012)

Reproductive Health Publications

• Well-Women Visits & Prenatal Care under the ACA's Women's Health Amendment (Mar. 2013)
• NHeLP’s 10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion is Good for Women (Aug. 2012)
• NHeLP’s 10 Reasons the Medicaid Expansion Helps to Address Health Disparities (Aug. 2012)
• NHeLP’s 10 Reasons Medicaid Expansion Benefits Women Living with HIV (Aug. 2012)