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...
by Diverse Elders | Sep 9, 2019
by Dara S. Taylor. This article originally appeared on the Community Catalyst blog. Since the passage of the ACA over 20 million people have gained access to health insurance coverage through the Marketplace. A recent issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund reaffirms...
by Diverse Elders | May 22, 2019
by Quynh Chi Nguyen. This article originally appeared on Community Catalyst’s Health Policy Hub blog. Every year on April 30, many Vietnamese living across the globe commemorate what they term the end of the Vietnamese war (also known as the American war in...
by Diverse Elders | Sep 5, 2018
by Lois Uttley. This article originally appeared on the Community Catalyst blog. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a groundbreaking nondiscrimination provision known as Section 1557, or the “Health Care Rights Law,” which serves as the first federal law to...
by Diverse Elders | Jul 17, 2018
by Jessie Zimmerer. This post originally appeared on the Center for Community Engagement in Health Innovation blog. If health care advocacy were a sport, there’d be no question about our defensive strategy. Much of our collective efforts over the last few years have...