State Healthcare Access Research Project (SHARP)

TAEP and the Health Law & Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School are evaluating and documenting access to care and services in states across the country, and helping communities grow their advocacy to improve access even in these challenging economic times. Click here to find SHARP reports and related materials.

Health Care Reform Implementation

High Risk Insurance Pools (July 2010):

•  Fact sheet with information about the new national high risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions

• 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.
   

Health Care Reform

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) >click here for final text of legislation<

•  Signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010

•  At-a-glance index of major provisions of interest in PPACA

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 >click here for final text of legislation<

• Signed into law by President Obama on March 30, 2010

Resources summarizing the private, public, and HIV-specific provisions of health care reform that matter to our community:

• TAEP slideshow (adaptable); PDF version (with explanatory notes for printing)

• Project Inform & HIV Medicine Association slideshow

• HIV Health Care Access Working Group slideshow (presented at April 28, 2010 FAPP meeting)

• TAEP "Advocacy After Health Care Reform" slideshow

• Center on  Budget and Policy Priorities--summary of how the PPACA affordability provisions work

• CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)--brochure "Medicare and the New Health Law - What It Means for You"

• CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)--folleto "Medicare y la Nueva Ley de Salud - Lo que Significa para Usted"

Background Information on Health Care Reform & HIV/AIDS

• Fact sheet on ETHA and Medicaid in national health care reform (May 7, 2009)

• Health Care Reform Platform [detailed]

• Health Care Reform Platform [summary]

TAEP's Community Presentations

TAEP Director Robert Greenwald provided comments on health care reform's impact on women living with HIV/AIDS to Positive Women's Network on May 5, 2010.

TAEP Director Robert Greenwald and HIV Health Care Access Working Group co-chair Laura Hanen (NASTAD) presented an update on health care reform at the quarterly Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) meeting in Washington, DC on April 28, 2010.

Dorothee Alsentzer presented "AIDS Watch 2010: Advocacy after health care reform" at AIDS Watch 2010. The Treatment Access Expansion Project and the National Association of People with AIDS co-sponsored AIDS Watch, which took place in Washington, DC on April 26-28. 

Amy Rosenberg and Patrick Packer (Executive Director, Southern AIDS Coalition) presented "Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Healthcare Access in the South" at the SAC Regional Conference, March 3-5, 2010.

TAEP Director Robert Greenwald presented an update on the 2009 Ryan White Act reauthorization, the national health care reform debate, and TAEP's work to increase access to health care and services before the Louisiana Commission on HIV/AIDS and Hep-C, January 21, 2010.

TAEP's 2010 Agenda

To further our goal of maximizing access to increasingly effective HIV care and treatment, we focus on opportunities in four areas:

• Increased testing

• Reduction/Elimination of Late Diagnosis

• Promotion of Early Access to Care

• Reduction of Stigma

Read more about TAEP's work.