Connecticut News Junkie: Lawsuit Against Trump-Era Rule Turns into Nationwide Class Action (August 29, 2022) Low-income disabled and older adults in Connecticut, Delaware, and Nebraska “Lawsuit Against Trump-Era Rule Turns into Nationwide Class Action”
Category: LITIGATION
Medicaid Enrollees Cut off Critical Health Benefits During COVID Public Health Emergency Due to Lawless Trump Administration Regulation Seek Nationwide Class Certification and Injunction
Media Contact: Bernard Kavaler for Disability Rights Connecticut: 860-729-3021 bernard@express-strategies.com Five Plaintiffs from Three States seek to represent others affected throughout the U.S. and ask “Medicaid Enrollees Cut off Critical Health Benefits During COVID Public Health Emergency Due to Lawless Trump Administration Regulation Seek Nationwide Class Certification and Injunction”
CT Plaintiffs Urge Biden to Rescind Trump-era Medicaid Cuts
Connecticut Mirror: CT Plaintiffs Urge Biden to Rescind Trump-era Medicaid Cuts (August 17, 2022) In response to a lawsuit filed by three disabled women in “CT Plaintiffs Urge Biden to Rescind Trump-era Medicaid Cuts”
Two Women with Disabilities Receive Temporary Reprieve
Connecticut News Junkie: Two Women with Disabilities Receive Temporary Reprieve (August 15, 2022) Two Connecticut women with disabilities who sued the U.S. Department of Health “Two Women with Disabilities Receive Temporary Reprieve”
Carr, Moore, Wilson v Becerra
(Filed August 4, 2022) In November, 2020, the Trump Administration issued an interim final rule, without considering the thousands of comments submitted in opposition, that “Carr, Moore, Wilson v Becerra”
Low-Income Medicaid Enrollees Sue U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Failing to Undo Lawless, Harmful Policy Adopted by Trump Administration
Illegal Policy Requires State Medicaid Agencies to Kick Hundreds of Thousands of People Off of Medicaid During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Violation of Congress’s Clear “Low-Income Medicaid Enrollees Sue U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Failing to Undo Lawless, Harmful Policy Adopted by Trump Administration”
For Older Americans, Some Positive Health News
New York Times: For Older Americans, Some Positive Health News (February 28, 2022) The Covid pandemic has presented older Americans with plenty of grim news, “For Older Americans, Some Positive Health News”
Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage
Kaiser Health News: Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage (January 28, 2022) A three-judge federal appeals court panel in “Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage”
Barrows v. Becerra
UPDATE (January 25, 2022): A federal appeals court ruled that this national class of plaintiffs can appeal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Barrows v. Becerra”
Social Security Opens to Survivors of Same-Sex Couples Who Could Not Marry
New York Times: Social Security Opens to Survivors of Same-Sex Couples Who Could Not Marry (January 23, 2022) This case challenged a policy that limited “Social Security Opens to Survivors of Same-Sex Couples Who Could Not Marry”
