Supporting the Fight for Vaccine Equity in Southern States
Through Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP), advocates throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico have been fighting tirelessly to combat lack of vaccine access, dis/misinformation and hesitancy.
No Insured Person Should be Underinsured
The Biden Administration Can Make Four Simple But Important Changes to Improve Essential Benefits Coverage Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect, the uninsured rate has been cut…
While Reconciliation Deal Makes Strides on Affordability, Equity Issues Remain in the Coverage Gap
Inequity in access to health care due to discriminatory barriers to economic security makes clear this is a race equity and health justice issue.
Community Catalyst Executive Director Emily Stewart’s testimony as prepared for delivery before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on June 27, 2022. Thank you for the opportunity to speak about the proposed…
Youth Are the Key to a Better Adolescent Behavioral Health System
Youth with lived experiences of mental illness and substance use challenges, including addiction, understand first-hand the limitations, inequities, and failures of the current system.
Saving Lives from Addiction = Keeping the Focus on Health and Harm Reduction!
For the first time in history, the U.S. National Drug Control Strategy includes support for harm reduction – drug overdose prevention and health interventions that save lives. This is a…
The Time is Now to Help Medicaid Enrollees Prepare for the End of the Public Health Emergency
Planning for the end of the public health emergency and what it means for people in their states.
$26 Billion Opioid Settlement: A Chance to Do the Right Thing
The largest of any opioid settlement thus far, it will potentially put billions of dollars into state coffers earmarked expressly for abating the substance use epidemic that has ravaged the…
Larger ACA Premium Subsidies Are Covering Millions More: Here’s How Congress Can Make Them Permanent
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, more than 2 million people have signed up for ACA Coverage or Medicaid. Unfortunately, these changes expire in two years.
Momentum for Dental Coverage Grows with Proposed Medicaid Dental Benefit Act in Congress
Dental coverage is having a moment, both in state governments and at the federal level. This week, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44) announced the introduction of a new bill, the…
Sens. Warnock, Ossoff & Baldwin Want to Close the Medicaid Gap, Congress Must Act
This week Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock released a legislative proposal with senators Ossoff and Baldwin to close the Medicaid coverage gap in states that have yet to adopt Medicaid expansion.