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Families USA led over 450 stakeholder organizations to oppose the recent block grant guidance released by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Together, we believe this guidance threatens the essential health coverage Medicaid provides…
Allison Neswood, Esq., is a Health Care Attorney with the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. The Colorado Center is a major social justice organization in the state, and Neswood is a health care…
Martha has not been able to address her oral health issues because she has competing bills to pay. She is insured through Medicare and a pension plan she received through her late husband while…
Cheryl’s oral health quickly began to decline after her job was outsourced when she turned 62 and hasn’t gotten better now that she is retired and covered through Medicare. When her position transitioned to…
Evens is overjoyed to have insurance again after going 10 years without. "If something happened, it would cost me a lot of money that I could never repay," he said about his uninsured years.…
Katie was born with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that affects almost every system in the body and is extremely complex to treat. Katie says that her joints are so prone to dislocation that she…
In fall 2018, Nebraska voted to finally expand Medicaid, as most other states had already done. The state’s Medicaid expansion will extend coverage to almost 100,000 Nebraskans, including single adults, parents, and caregivers. But…
We are now over three years into Donald Trump’s presidency. President Trump has delivered the final State of the Union address and introduced the final budget proposal of his first term. We can now…
In December 2019, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would add dental coverage to Medicare as part of H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. This is an enormous…
For more than a generation, Democratic and Republican administrations alike held to two core commitments: Children should have the health insurance they need for a good start in life; and immigrant families should be…