Health Coverage and Access

Toolkit: Submitting Comments in Support of HHS Rule To Improve Medical Equipment Accessibility

This toolkit provides guidance for reproductive rights and disability rights organizations and others who seek to submit a comment on the Biden administration’s proposed rule on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Back-to-School Is Here: It’s Time to Get Kids Caught Up on Their Vaccines

In their op-ed published by The 74, Jill Rosenthal and Michelle Fiscus explain why routine immunizations are necessary to keep kids and communities safe and what role schools can play in immunization efforts.

5 Facts To Know About Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

Price negotiation will improve access and affordability for Medicare Part D drugs for seniors.

In the face of a national drug shortage, the US must bolster its supply chains

Marquisha Johns writes in The Hill why reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act is essential to avoid drug supply chain issues and shortages.

Health Equity in Early Childhood Policy

Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Will Help Millions of Seniors and Improve Health Equity

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug price negotiation provision will improve access to and affordability of medications that help women, Black, Hispanic or Latino, LGBTQI+, and disabled beneficiaries.

Reversing the Decline in Routine Childhood Immunization Rates Is Good Health, Equity, and Economic Policy

Policymakers can address the decline in routine childhood vaccination rates in the United States by improving access and boosting confidence in childhood vaccines, and by making vaccination the easiest and most sensible choice.

Policymakers Must Understand How Education, Health Care, and Economic Security Shape Early Child Development

Policymaking that considers the unique developmental needs of young children, as well as their lived experiences and that of their families, can set the foundation for health and well-being throughout life.

1 Year Without Roe

Doctors, doulas, and nurse practitioners detail their experiences since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and their fears in the rapidly evolving legal landscape of abortion care.

Texas OB-GYN Grapples With Providing Care in a Challenging Legal Landscape

Restrictions on abortion force a Texas OB-GYN to change how she operates her practice.

Abortion Laws in Texas Restrict Doctors in Providing Abortion Care

A South Texas OB-GYN resident sees patients suffering worse health outcomes in the aftermath of the state’s near-total abortion ban and restrictions.

Doula at D.C. Clinic Provides Abortion Care for Patients Traveling From Across the Country

An abortion doula in Washington, D.C., details her experiences offering care to patients traveling from across the country to access care.