Advocacy & Policy

CHA Calls for Restored SHIP Funding for FY 2018
By Karen Fletcher on July 18, 2017
Last week, the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee marked up its FY18 bill, and among the cuts in programs that...
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CHA Advises on Ways to Revitalize the California Partnership for Long Term Care
By Karen Fletcher on July 17, 2017
Bonnie Burns, our Training and Policy Specialist, provides recommendations on ways to revitalize the California Partnership for Long-Term Care...
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CHA Supports the Beneficiary Enrollment Notification & Simplification Act
By Karen Fletcher on June 29, 2017
June 29, 2017 The Honorable Raul Ruiz U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Patrick...
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CHA Asks Senate Budget Committee to Reject Funding Cuts to SHIPs
By Karen Fletcher on May 18, 2017
California Health Advocates sends a letter to the Senate Budget Committee urging them to sign on to Senator Murphy's...
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35 Organizations Provide Feedback to CMS on “Welcome to Medicare” Package
By Karen Fletcher on May 5, 2017
CHA and 34 other organizations provided recommendations on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Welcome to Medicare”...
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CHA Supports Gleason Enduring Voices Act of 2017 ~ Ensuring Medicare Coverage of Speech Generative Devices
By Karen Fletcher on May 1, 2017
California Health Advocates, along with 81 other organizations supports the Steve Gleason Enduring Voices Act of 2017 to revise...
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CHA Supports Tax Credit for Family Caregivers (AB 806)
By Karen Fletcher on March 21, 2017
California Health Advocates submitted this letter of support for AB 806 authored by Assembly Member Kalra. This bill will...
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CHA Advocates for Family Caregiver Respite Support Bill (SB 177)
By Karen Fletcher on March 21, 2017
California Health Advocates submitted this letter of support for SB 177 (Nguyen) Family Caregiver Respite Support which will appropriate...
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CHA Advocates for Moratorium on Long Term Care Insurance Premium Increases
By Karen Fletcher on February 2, 2017
CHA submitted a letter in support of legislation that would place a moratorium on premium increases for long term...
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Imminent Repeal of ACA & Proposals to Alter Medicare Threaten CA Seniors
By Karen Fletcher on January 17, 2017
With the imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and threats to alter Medicare, Congress has set the...
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