Health Equity Connection for July 2012

In this Issue

• New Resources
• Policy Updates
• Fellowship Opportunity
  
• Upcoming Events
  

New Resources

• Designing Essential Health Benefits for Your State: An Advocate’s Guide (Families USA)
  
  
• Evaluating Managed Long-Term Care Proposals in Your State: Key Areas for Advocacy (Families USA) 
  
  
• Texas Puts Latinos’ Health at Risk: How Opting Out of the Medicaid Expansion Will Affect the State’s Hispanics (Center for American Progress) 
  
  
• How Health Reform’s Medicaid Expansion Will Impact State Budgets (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
  
  
• HHS LGBT Issues Coordinating Committee 2012 Report (Department of Health and Human Services)
  
  
• At Stake: Access to Affordable Insurance for Latinos with Preexisting Conditions (National Council of La Raza)  
  
   

Policy Updates

Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act
On June 28, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 decision. It ruled that the individual responsibility provision was constitutional under Congress’s power to collect taxes. While the court decided that funding for the Medicaid program could not be withheld if states refused to expand the program, it upheld the mandatory expansion of Medicaid and the generous package of federal spending that accompanies it. The decision is a major victory for all Americans, as the country can move forward with implementing health reform and ensuring that every citizen has the right to affordable, quality health care.

Fellowship Opportunity

• The Health Equity Fellowship Program (The Greenlining Institute) – 8/10/12
  

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