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New Data Makes Clear the Biden Administration Must do More to Mitigate Health Coverage Losses
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data on the Medicaid unwind from the continuous coverage provision of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Groups Urge Biden Administration to Expand Decade Old Coverage Requirements of Essential Health Benefits to Include Dental and Gender-affirming Care
“Our message is simple: No insured person should be underinsured. The Biden administration can make simple but important and long overdue changes to improve essential health benefits coverage for millions…
Community Catalyst, United States of Care, and 15 Other Health Advocacy Organizations Submit Amicus Brief to Protect Coverage of Cost-Free Preventive Services
A coalition filed an amicus brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra to protect coverage of preventive services without out-of-pocket cost.
Community Catalyst Statement on the Debt Ceiling Bill
Executive Director Emily Stewart issues a statement on the debt ceiling bill signed by President Biden.
Community Catalyst on Debt Ceiling Deal
After months of grassroots organizing and advocacy, Community Catalyst and partners helped to avoid harmful cuts to the Medicaid program.
No Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, TANF
Community Catalyst issued a statement after Republicans signaled their alignment with Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill that could send millions of people across the country deeper into poverty by stripping…
Community Catalyst Applauds President Biden for Continuing to Oppose House Passed Plan to Gut Medicaid in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
As President Biden and congressional leaders met on the debt ceiling, Emily Stewart issued a statement.
After Decade-plus Fight Led by Impacted Communities, Washington State Expands Dental Therapy
Community Catalyst joins partners in celebrating the bipartisan passage of legislation allowing more communities in Washington state to access care through dental therapists.
Stay in ACA Case is Good, but the ACA is Still Under Attack From Activist Judges Trying to Take Away Affordable Coverage and Care
A stay was issued in a ruling that could affect 150 million people. The stay pauses a ruling that struck down a provision in ACA that provides no-cost preventive care…
Speaker McCarthy: “Gutting Medicaid to Protect Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations is Shameful.”
“With the cost of everything from eggs to prescription drugs rising, we should be making health care more accessible to those who need it most, not taking it away.”