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Make Coverage Affordable for the Long Term
The American Rescue Plan's enhancements are critical to help individuals and families’ secure health access during the pandemic and are a needed correction to the ACA subsidy scale and must be made permanent.
ALERT: Speak up NOW on the state of health care
Tomorrow night’s state of the union marks the first time President Biden will speak to Congress. Our job is to remind the Biden administration and policymakers that health care is central to infrastructure – and the time to be bold is now.
Top Legislative Priorities: 2021-22
For the first time in over ten years, Congress has an opportunity to build on the foundation created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Community Catalyst 2021-22 legislative priorities reflect this unique moment.
Making Convenient Care the Right Care for All: Improving State Oversight of Urgent Care Centers and Retail Health Clinics
This brief looks at oversight of "convenient care" clinics and considers whether they are serving a fair share of low-income or uninsured consumers and are providing an appropriate array of services, including urgent reproductive and sexual health care.
ALERT: Celebrating 11 years of the Affordable Care Act
The endurance of the ACA for over a decade is a testament to the strength of our collective efforts in the never-ending fight for progress.
Leveraging Funds: Tools, Insights and Suggestions from Advocates and Funders to Support Your Work and Long(er)-Term Sustainability
This collection of Leveraging Funds tools offers insights and suggestions from both advocates who successfully used Health Justice Fund (HJF) grants to secure matching funds for their work as well as an interview with a Georgia funder.
The American Rescue Plan: A Prescription for Child Health and Stability During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The American Rescue Plan includes key provisions that will reduce child poverty in America and promote health through evidence-based solutions that respond to the current crisis and move our country forward to economic, racial, and social justice.
Policy Priorities: Unfinished Business
Second in a three-part policy series focused on actions the Biden-Harris administration must take to promote health equity.
Federal Action Required Related to Housing Security & Continuous Medicaid Coverage
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation was facing an affordable housing crisis that left people of color at greater risk of being evicted.
Sustaining Your Fundraising During the Time of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create new challenges challenges for consumer health advocacy organizations and the communities they support, we hope this toolkit can serve as practical guide to support some financial challenges.
Congress Must Respond to Deep Health Inequities for Black People During COVID-19: Medicaid is the Lever
In this brief co-authored with the National Medical Association, we assert Congress should use the next COVID-19 relief package to include Medicaid improvements that respond to the crisis while also dismantling unfair barriers to care.
Strengthening our Response: A Series to Inform an Equitable Policy Response [ Publication ]
Top Five State COVID-19 Response Policy Priorities [ Publication ]
Health Care Affordability and COVID-19 - Policy Brief
The arrival of the COVID-19 crisis has only served to highlight gaps in affordability of care, demonstrating that people across the country, including many of the pandemic’s “essential workers,” deserve a more affordable and equitable solution.
Policy Principles to Guide Health Care’s Role in Social Interventions
This document lays out 10 principles to guide efforts in the health care sphere to address the social and economic determinants of poor health in ways that elevate and support patients and communities -- critical to achieving health justice.
Comments to CMS regarding the Basic Health Program Federal Funding Methodology for Program Years 2019 and 2020.
The Basic Health Program gives states an additional option for providing affordable health coverage to individuals with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level.
Comments to the Department of Agriculture in response to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents Proposed Rule
Community Catalyst comments in response to proposed rule to restrict state waivers of SNAP work requirements.
Ending Surprise Balance Billing: Steps to Protect Patients and Reduce Excessive Health Care Costs
The growth of surprise out-of-network medical bills has risen to be a top health care concern for many people in the U.S.