Some health policies Democrats might enact with the Senate majority even in a narrowly divided Congress:
Making the suit against the ACA moot
ACA premium help
Aid to states and incentives to expand Medicaid
Government drug price negotiation
No cost-sharing for COVID treatment
Canceling #medicaldebt will require some ingenuity, because it is held by innumerable hospitals, private health care providers, and debt collectors—a reflection of our patchwork system, said Jenifer Bosco @NCLC4consumers. @thenation@astradisastra#COVID19
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Today will be Brandon Bernard's last. No matter what crime a person has committed, the act of taking a healthy, breathing, conscious, aware being, strapping him down and snuffing out his life with a lethal injection, is a stain on us all. We must learn to be better than this.
“Clearly, getting rid of the Affordable Care Act during a global pandemic would be devastating for people,” said Amy Rosenthal, executive director of @HCFA. “It would jolt our health care system at a time when we really need stability.”
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As the world continues to grapple with a global pandemic, SCOTUS heard arguments on Tuesday in a legal challenge seeking to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. Thank you to the @BCBSMAFdn for the opportunity to prepare this report.
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Our Legal Director, @JustinLoweHLA spoke to Commonwealth Magazine about this week’s arguments in the SCOTUS on the reckless legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a law which which has profoundly benefitted Mass. residents. https://t.co/PrVUvXUGxk
Wicked awesome news from @HLAMass re the 11/17 annual breakfast. @AyannaPressley & Dr. Angela Davis. This will be one amazing morning. Register: https://t.co/Gzr6yyo5V6. .
We'd love to thank all of our Bronze Sponsors for supporting HLA's 25th Annual Benefit Breakfast!! @AARPMA, @AllWays_Health, Ankner & Levy, Archstone Law Group, @arentfox, @BarrettSingal, @BostonCIL, @BHCHP, @HealthyBoston, @BUSPH Center for Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights
Huge win!!
This Trump rule would have ended SNAP benefits for more than 700,000 unemployed people in the middle of a pandemic. You can't make this cruelty up.
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(1/2) Thank you to @WBUR, @NPRWeekend and @thebrodybeat for highlighting this important issue. Anyone in need of eviction relief should (1) seek help at https://t.co/z7AZrr1QLx, (2) apply for RAFT at https://t.co/F1l0dDboWs, and
HLA Legal Director, @JustinLoweHLA, was interviewed on WBUR yesterday (Sunday) to discuss the impact on and available resources for Mass residents now that the Massachusetts' ban on evictions and foreclosures has expired.
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HLA Legal Director, @JustinLoweHLA, was interviewed on WBUR yesterday (Sunday) to discuss the impact on and available resources for Mass residents now that the Massachusetts' ban on evictions and foreclosures has expired.
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“Unleashing a wave of evictions at this moment will predictably accelerate the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections and exacerbate existing chronic health conditions especially in communities of color – the very same communities that have already been hardest hit by the pandemic.”
Last Friday HLA joined @HCFA and the @phlawwatch in filing an amicus brief supporting the state’s temporary suspension of evictions as landlords argue that the law is unconstitutional. Read the full amicus brief below:
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