Resources About State Consumer Health Advocacy
A Case for Trauma-Informed Care
This issue brief outlines what childhood trauma is, how it is measured, and how integrating trauma-informed approaches into advocacy work can improve the health of children and families.
Addressing Out Of Control Prescription Drug Prices: Federal and State Strategies
This new brief provides a policy framework to support efforts to make prescription drugs more accessible and affordable for people across the country.
Lessons in Health Coverage Consumer Assistance: Best Practices and Future Challenges
This report reviews the current enrollment and assistance landscape, highlights best practice approaches to consumer assistance, and identifies remaining opportunities and challenges.
Comments on Wisconsin Medicaid proposed amendment to its Section 1115 waiver
Community Catalyst comment letter on Wisconsin Medicaid’s proposed amendment to its Section 1115 waiver, the BadgerCare Reform Demonstration project.
Oral Health in the New Health Care Reality Fact Sheet
This fact sheet discusses the importance of Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in providing dental coverage and oral health services.
Block Grants and Per Capita Caps Would Dismantle Medicaid as We Know It
This fact sheet explains how block grants and per capita caps results in fewer people being able access to Medicaid coverage that meets their needs.
Asking the Right Questions to avoid Churn
This tip sheet provides enrollment specialists an additional tool to use to when helping consumers apply for or re-enroll in health coverage and avoid churn.
Health Insurance Churn: The Basics
This fact sheet provides basic information of health insurance churn including common factors that cause churn and its health impacts on consumers.
Medicaid Managed Care Rule Fact Sheet and Advocacy Guide
Advocacy guide on the Medicaid managed care rules finalized in May 2016 to modernize and align the program more closely to the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces and Medicare Advantage over the next few years.
New Materials To Engage Funders On Your Advocacy Work [ Alert ]
Helping Consumers Find Exemptions to Avoid the Fee
This fact sheet describes twenty coverage exemptions, available from the Marketplace or on a tax return, that advocates can help low-income consumers apply for, to prevent them from owing a fee.
Clock Winding Down on Open Enrollment Three [ Alert ]
The Path to a People-Centered Health System: Next Generation Consumer Health Advocacy
This report is a starting point for the next generation of consumer health advocacy that equips consumer advocates to take on the challenges and opportunities of transforming our health system.
'Tis the Season of Giving Affordable Health Care [ Alert ]
Passing Mile 13 in the OE3 Marathon! [ Alert ]
OE3: Here We Go!
We know you’ve already put in countless hours preparing to educate people about the law and encouraging consumers in your community to renew their coverage ahead of what is sure to be another successful enrollment period.
New Materials On Starting A Fundraising Campaign
We wanted to share an excellent resource our partners at Spitfire Strategies have created to help you think about your funder audiences and how to craft effective fundraising materials.
Life changes that give consumers a Special Enrollment Period
A memo covering the various life changes that can trigger an SEP.
Maternal Depression: Implications for Parents and Children and Opportunities for Policy Change
This issue brief serves as an overview of the scope and impact of maternal depression and highlights opportunities to use two-generation approaches to health and Medicaid expansion to better serve affected families.
Medicaid offers new way to improve drug-alcohol services
The federal government just provided an important opportunity for your state to do better for people with substance use disorders and mental illness.