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MLK Day’s unfinished business: protecting Medicaid, SNAP, and Older Americans Act services for diverse older adults and family caregivers

MLK Day’s unfinished business: protecting Medicaid, SNAP, and Older Americans Act services for diverse older adults and family caregivers

by Diverse Elders | Jan 26, 2026

MLK Day is often remembered through the soaring language of dreams and freedom. Less often, we talk about how clearly Dr. King named health equity as a civil rights issue. In 1966, speaking in Chicago, Dr. King warned that injustice in health is not abstract, it is...
DEC Submits Comment on HHS Proposed Rule for Health Care Rights Law

DEC Submits Comment on HHS Proposed Rule for Health Care Rights Law

by Diverse Elders | Oct 17, 2022

By Didier Trinh, Diverse Elders Coalition’s Advocacy Director. Under the Obama Administration, the original text of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the Health Care Rights Law, or HCRL) was interpreted to protect individuals from...
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