How to Navigate Our Guides:

• Click the links below to access one to two page breakdowns of policies that might be affecting your access to healthcare.
• Fast Facts: Quick, easy-to-scan bullets that highlight essential information. Examples include when the policy was passed, its full title, and its main goal or objective.
• Context: Some bills are in regards to technology, previous policy, and other medical, societal, economic situations. We provide the appropriate context needed to understand the bill/act.
• Policy Actions: A clear, digestible summary of the policy written in everyday language. We focus on the core points to make complex, multi-page bills easier to understand.
• Who’s Affected: Certain policies target specific groups of people. Even if the policy does not directly relate to you, stay informed on how public policy disproportionately affects communities.
• Why It Matters: Find what all of the policy actually means and how the previous information you’ve read might translate directly into your or your loved ones’ life.
• Glossary: Terminology that was necessary for explanations is defined.
• Resources: Reading about policies can be disheartening. We’ve compiled resources to address challenges.
• Sources: We provide direct sources such as the bill itself, and article breakdowns that serve as starting points for additional research if needed.

Our goal with these guides is to educate, inform, and promote accessibility. Guides are written by CURA student volunteers who always strive to be accurate and choose information they deem necessary to provide easy starting points, but guides DO NOT constitute legal or medical advice. These guides are designed to be clear and selective to avoid overwhelming readers, but we always include sources, additional resources, and encourage further research!

We hope our work makes navigating healthcare easier, one step at a time.