Consumer Protection and Experience
Dissecting the Deepest Cuts: New Restrictions Limiting Medicaid State Directed Payments
Among the many provisions in the 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) that gut Medicaid, one of the most consequential is the imposition of new limits on state directed payments (SDPs), which m...
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Hospital Prices are Crushing Americans: It’s Time for Bipartisan Bold Action to Lower Costs
When Families USA and the right-leaning Paragon Institute agree on something, Congress should take notice. Both organizations — with very little else in common — have released major reports this y...
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Dobbs Anniversary Day of Action Toolkit
Reproductive Rights as Essential Health Care Defending and advancing reproductive rights is critical to advancing health equity, protecting personal freedom, and ensuring access to affordable, high-q...
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Celebrating Key LGBTQ+ Figures in Health Care
Pride Month is a celebration — and this year, making time for that joy is more important than ever. The LGBTQ+ community is under sustained attack. Research into our health is being def...
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Families USA Statement for the Record for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Hearing on “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”
Families USA submitted a statement for the record for the June 4 House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet hearing on "Medicines and IP: ...
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Erased Twice: Federal Disinvestment Is Deepening AAPI Maternal and Reproductive Health Disparities
May 2026 marks the 35th annual official Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. There is much to celebrate: for generations, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Island...
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Families USA Recognizes Maternal Mental Health Week and the Stories of Moms Who’ve Been There
As we approach Mother’s Day, we also mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week (May 4-8), which brings attention to an issue that is often overlooked or minimized: maternal mental health. The po...
View MoreBig Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers Are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power
Today Families USA published a new data analysis, "Big Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power,” that found that just a small number of large corporate he...
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Nebraska’s Rushed Implementation of Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Puts Residents’ Health at Risk
On Friday, May 1, Nebraska will become the first state to subject Medicaid enrollees to work reporting requirements — eight months before states are required to do so under the Republicans’ ...
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Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing and Allied Organizations Statement for the Record for the Ways and Means Committee Hearing with Health System CEOs
Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing and allied organizations submitted this statement for the record to the Ways & Means Committee ahead of their April 28 hearing with health system CEOs. The stat...
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