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What Americans Really Want for the Holidays This Year

Lowering the cost of health care is at the top of nearly every American’s wish list this year. In polls and at the ballot box, voters of all ideologies have singled out health care costs as the top ...

Health access on the line: How Trump’s proposed public charge rule hurts all of us and weakens our health care system

Last week, Families USA submitted a comment on a proposed rule from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) titled Public Charge Ground of Inadm...

Federal Officials Have Spoken, and Now it’s the States’ Turn: “Lookback Period” for Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

The Republican budget bill passed in July 2025 included massive cuts to health care and an upheaval of Medicaid eligibility requirements that will make it harder for millions of Americans to get on an...

What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026

TODAY, December 15, is the deadline to enroll in a health care plan to guarantee you are covered on January 1, 2026. It also signals that only one month remains to enroll in marketplace coverage for t...

Defend Progress. Extend Coverage. Empower Consumers. Protecting CGM Access at the State-Level

While significant progress has been made at the state level to expand coverage, recent cuts to Medicaid under H.R. 1, “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” have put immense pressure on state Medicaid pr...

Getting Ready for Open Enrollment

In the wake of the Republican health care cuts and the Trump administration’s changes to ACA marketplace rules, and in the midst of a government shutdown due in part to Congress’s lack of action t...

Big Drug Company Tactics Undermine Drug Pricing Reforms: The Case Against Orphan Drug Exemptions

To address ever-increasing prescription drug costs, federal and state policymakers have instituted reforms ranging from Medicare price negotiations to state Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDA...

Families USA Submits Comments On Montana Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership (HELP) Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver

Families USA has submitted comments on Montana’s proposed Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Project, the Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership (HELP) Demonstration Program (“HELP Demonstrat...

Families USA and 153 Organizations Send Letter to Congress to Permanently Extend Enhanced Premium Tax Credits

As the government shutdown continues and negotiations in Congress stall, Families USA led 153 organizations in calling on Congress to take immediate action and permanently extend the enhanced premiu...

Sowing Distrust and Dismantling Science: Escalating Threats to Vaccine Access

Vaccines represent some of the greatest public health achievements in history, building on science, expert policy and public trust to strengthen America’s security and protect millions of lives acro...