Health Action Resources

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND ENHANCED TAX CREDITS

Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Enhanced Tax Credits

• RESOURCE PAGE: Why Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Should Be Made Permanent. Families USA’s enhanced tax credit resources, which also includes a letter to Congress. Families USA.
• STATEMENT: CMS’s Decision Eviscerates Navigator Funding, Leaving Hundreds of Thousands Adrift on Health Care Decisions. Families USA’s issues a statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcing a $360 million cut in funding to the Federal Navigator program. Families USA.

Messaging

• TOOLKIT: Work Requirements Digital Toolkit. Community Catalyst.
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• MESSAGE GUIDE: Defending and Protecting Access to Affordable Healthcare. Core messages and themes in the fight to defend access to affordable care and coverage. Cost and Coverage Collaborative.

State and District-Level Data and Research

• PAPER: Premium Tax Credit Improvements Must Be Extended to Prevent Steep Rise in Health Care Costs. Paper on how costs will rise for people if Congress fails to extend the premium tax credits, with state-level data. CBPP.
• ARTICLE: How Many People per District Are Benefiting From Tax Credits. Center for American Progress (CAP).

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MEDICAID

Action Tools

• SIGN ON LETTER: Letter to New Administration to Protect Medicaid. Action Alert to Congress. Families USA.
• SEND A LETTER: Contacting Your Member of Congress with No Cut Message. Coalition on Human Needs.
• SIGN ON LETTER: For Disability and Aging Community and Allies. Initial deadline has passed but sign-ons are being collected into the new year for a second round that will be sent. Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC), the Health and Long-Term Services and Supports Task Forces of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD).
• RESOURCE PAGE: Protect & Defend Medicaid Advocacy Resource Page (Unbranded Resources). Community Catalyst.
• SEND A LETTER: Contacting Your Member of Congress with No Cut Message. Coalition on Human Needs.

State and District-Level Data and Research

• PAPER: Medicaid Per Capita Cap Would Harm Millions of People by Forcing Deep Cuts and Shifting Costs to States. Paper on how per capita caps would harm states, including some state data using case study illustrations (see table 1). CBPP.
• PAPER: Medicaid Threats in the Upcoming Congress. Paper on proposed federal Medicaid threats, including state data on how reducing the Medicaid expansion federal match rate or eliminating/lowering the floor on federal Medicaid match rates would drastically shift costs to states. Also includes state-level enrollment numbers by group – children, people with disabilities, seniors and adults. CBPP.
• PAPER: State Efforts to Take Medicaid Health Coverage Away From People Likely to Resurface in 2025. Paper that provides an overview of state-level proposals, strategies and rhetoric used to push for Medicaid cuts at the state level. CBPP.
• TABLE: Last 11 States Should Expand Medicaid to Maximize Coverage and Protect Against Funding Drop as Continuous Coverage Ends. Table with the amount of funding newly expanded states would get because of American Rescue Plan FMAP incentive. CBPP.
• FACT SHEET: Medicaid State Fact Sheets. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
• REPORT: Report with State Data on Medicaid Expansion Enrollment and Spending. Also includes a list of states with some type of ‘trigger law’ that would end expansion or require its review should federal funding be reduced. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
• FACT SHEET: Medicaid State Fact Sheets. Commonwealth Fund (CMWF).
• COMMENTARY: Yardstick for Medicaid Budget Targets: What Potential Numbers Mean The Century Foundation.
• REPORT: Medicaid’s Role in Small Towns and Rural Areas Georgetown Center for Children & Families.
• EXHIBIT: How Much Federal Money Medicaid is Bringing Into Your State (FY 2023) MAPAC.

Impacted Groups

• PUBLICATION: Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements? NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities. NHeLP.
• FACT SHEETS: Protect Medicaid Funding Series. NHeLP.
• FACT SHEETS: What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid? NHeLP.
• FACT SHEET: Medicaid Matters: To People, Our Economy and the Health Care System. Families USA.
• WEBINAR: What’s At Stake for Children and Families Webinar. Georgetown Center for Children & Families.
• REPORT: Medicaid’s Role in Small Towns and Rural Areas. Georgetown Center for Children & Families.
• PUBLICATION: Medicaid is Vital for Women’s Lifelong Health. National Partnership for Women & Families.
• FACT SHEET: Cutting Medicaid Harms Older Adults No Matter How It’s Sliced. Justice in Aging.
• COMMENTARY: Yardstick for Medicaid Budget Targets: What Potential Numbers Mean. The Century Foundation.
• ISSUE BRIEF: Closing the Coverage Gap: Medicaid Expansion and the Direct Care Workforce. Community Catalyst.

Messaging

• MESSAGE GUIDE: Defending Medicaid and Expansion. Strategic guidance and messaging to protect and defend Medicaid and Medicaid expansion. Cost and Coverage Collaborative.
• GRAPHICS COLLECTION: Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work. A collection of graphics defending Medicaid against potential work requirements and cuts. Cost and Coverage Collaborative.

Storytelling

• RESOURCE PAGE: Medicaid Lived Experiences. NHeLP.
• COLLECTION PORTAL: Story Collection Portal Community Catalyst.

Threats to Medicaid: Federal Funding Changes

• PUBLICATION: What is a Block Grant and How Would It Impact Medicaid? NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: What Is a Per Capita Cap and How Would It Impact Medicaid? NHeLP.

Threats to Medicaid: Work Requirements

• PUBLICATION: Top 10 Reasons Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Added to Medicaid NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements? NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities NHeLP.

Work Reporting Requirements

• PUBLICATION: Top 10 Reasons Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Added to Medicaid. NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements? NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities. NHeLP.
• PUBLICATION: Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put 36 Million People at Risk of Losing Health Coverage. Paper with the number of people per state at risk of losing their health coverage under work requirement. CBPP.
• BLOG: February 11 – Medicaid Work Requirements Community Catalyst.
• FACT SHEETS: Medicaid One Pagers (Medicaid 101, Per Capita Caps, Block Grants and Work Reporting Requirements) Community Catalyst.

Toolkits

• RESOURCES AND ANALYSIS: Medicaid Defense NHeLP.
• RESOURCE PAGE: Protect & Defend Medicaid Advocacy Resource Page (Unbranded Resources). Community Catalyst.
• TOOLKIT: Medicaid 2025 Web Page (All Things Medicaid-Related – Blogs, Reports, etc.). Georgetown Center for Children & Families.
• TOOLKIT: Protect Medicaid 2025 Toolkit. Caring Across Generations.
• TOOLKIT: Medicaid Toolkit. Protect Our Care.