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In light of Congressional Republican efforts to pass a budget bill that cuts Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, Families USA conducted an original analysis detailing the specific industries that…
Dr. Eileen Conti, an ophthalmologist who resides and practices in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District, represented by Congressman Tom Kean, has spent years serving patients others often turn away. At her ophthalmology practice, which…
To highlight the impact of looming Congressional Medicaid cuts on hospital finances across the country, and particularly in rural communities, Families USA conducted a new analysis to estimate the potential losses in hospital revenue…
Frank Ogrodowski a 35-year-old of Brick, New Jersey, helps care for his younger sister Jenna, a 27-year-old living with Down syndrome. From birth, Jenna has faced extraordinary challenges, including a hole in her heart…
Proposals in the House-passed and Senate-proposed budget bills to freeze and/or cut health care provider taxes put all state Medicaid budgets in an extremely precarious position. What’s more, these proposals insert federal decision-making into…
Melinda Magdalene Wings is a retired hospice nurse who knows the value of compassionate care. Today, she’s advocating not for her patients, but for her own parents, Ivan and Kay both 86 years old,…
Mary Shaw is 68 years old and has lived her entire life in Nebraska. She grew up in a rural area in a small town, spent her early years on a farm, and now…
Wendy Andersen is a proud mother of three children, two of whom have disabilities. Her son Dexter, now a teenager, was diagnosed as an infant with tuberous sclerosis a rare genetic condition that causes…
Adam Koresh, a student at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, comes from the small rural town of Elkader in northeast Iowa with an estimated population of only 1,200. Like many Iowans,…
The House budget bill passed by congressional Republicans would cut $1.1 trillion from health care, resulting in 16 million Americans losing coverage and affecting health systems across all 50 states. The Senate has proposed…