Health Care Reform Implemenation
 

Protecting funding for innovative programs through health care reform:

HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) and AIDS Budget and Appropriations Committee (ABAC) joint comments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding harmful proposal to undermine innovative public health, prevention, and other programs by withholding funding under the Affordable Care Act (April 2011)

Securing access to health care before, through, and after health care reform implementation:

Securing Health Care for People with HIV and AIDS: An Advocate's Roadmap on Implementing Health Care Reform and Bridging Current and On-going Access to Care Gaps (November 2011)

HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) comments to IOM on process to determine essential health benefits (December 2010)

HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) comments on the Internal Appeals and External Review regulation

HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) comments addressing concerns of the HIV/AIDS community regarding planning and establishment of state-level health insurance exchanges (October 2010)

High Risk Insurance Pools:

High risk pool fact sheet provides an overview of the high risk pool provision in the health care reform law as well as information on the eligibility criteria, cost-sharing provisions, and scope of coverage for the state and federally run pools.

High risk pool chart provides eligibility and provider network date for both the state and federally run high risk pools as well as links to helpful state and federal resources.

Community letter to Secretary Sebelius regarding implementation of the new national high risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions

Public health and prevention initiatives:

Community letter to Secretary Sebelius emphasizing the importance of making new Prevention and Public Health funding available to infectious disease prevention programs.