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Our Courts Are Deciding the Future of Childhood Vaccines: What Advocates Need to Know.

President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy are reshaping America’s public health infrastructure by taking unprecedented steps to alter the childhood vaccine schedule — changes driven by ideology ra...

The Program That’s Actually Lowering Drug Prices

For decades, policymakers talked about lowering prescription drug prices — in 2022, Congress actually did something about it by passing the Inflation Reduction Act which gave Medicare, for the f...

Protect Medicare’s Future: Hold Medicare Advantage Insurance Companies Accountable for Rising Health Care Costs

The Medicare Advantage (MA) program — now covering more than 33 million older adults — was created to deliver higher-quality, more coordinated care at a lower cost. Yet unchecked corporate profite...

Deadline Day: Enroll in 2026 Health Coverage Today

Open enrollment for marketplace coverage closes in most of the country today. If you have not yet enrolled in coverage for 2026 or were auto-enrolled in a plan, here are some tips: Go to...

Medicaid State Directed Payment for Primary Care and Behavioral Health Providers: Opportunities that Remain and Challenges Ahead

Among the many provisions in the 2025 Republican budget bill (H.R. 1) that gut Medicaid, one of the most consequential is the imposition of new limits on directed payments, which states use to boost r...

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

Last Updated on [post_modified] 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 enr...

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...