Joined together as part of the national Protecting Immigrant Families campaign, the groups MLRI, MIRA, Health Care for All and Health Law Advocates said they would fight against the change and work to raise awareness of it.
“The duty to share this information with their client’s physician will help ensure that medical professionals communicate effectively with one another, without leaving patients to fall through the cracks,” said Wells G. Wilkinson.
Mala Rafik, HLA Board President and Partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, P.C., honored with the Dr. Jim O’Connell Award at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s Medicine That Matters Gala on May 21, 2018.
In recognition of Children’s Mental Health Week: May 6-12, 2018
“It’s important we continue to remind people that here in Massachusetts we still have an individual mandate, and there’s still time to get insured.” -Amy Rosenfeld, Executive Director at Health Care for All & HLA board member in The Boston Globe.
Proud to partner with The Boston Foundation to ensure the LGBTQ community has equitable access to health care!
HLA’s Litigation Director and a member of HLA’s Board of Directors contributed to the Spring issue of “The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics”
Last year alone, HLA opened 158 cases of people who were denied coverage for mental health or substance use treatment. We need to make sure people have the resources they need to access mental health and SUD treatment — without the stigma.
HLA Staff Attorney Andrew Cohen quoted in this VICE piece regarding the disastrous ramifications for the trans community under the proposed health care bill.
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