Coverage

Proposed Health Insurance Premium Increases: A Call to Action for Advocates

On August 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted proposed increases in health insurance rates for 2025 on Healthcare.gov. These proposed increases often go unnoticed this time of...

Cheers to 59 Years of Medicare and Medicaid: Illuminating the Path Ahead

Serving a combined 150 million people in the U.S., ranging from seniors to infants and including adults, children, and people with disabilities, Medicare and Medicaid provide crucial access to care, i...

Ripple Effects: The Fall of Roe v. Wade

Today, June 24, 2024, marks the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, our nation’s political landscape has shifted dramatically. We knew that this decision would...

Cracking the Code on Surprise Medical Bills Pt 2: NSA Under Threat

Medical debt shouldn't ruin lives, but unfortunately, it's still a big issue in the U.S. Before 2021, one of the nastiest surprises people could face was getting slammed with unexpected medical bills ...

Families USA responds to CMS Request for Information on Medicare Advantage Data

Families USA submitted comments on the Medicare Program; Request for Information on Medicare Advantage Data (i.e., 2024 Medicare Advantage Data RFI). As Medicare Advantage (MA) plans now provide he...

La importancia de los créditos fiscales para las primas: Cómo costear un seguro médico a nivel nacional

En la actualidad, casi 20 millones de personas en todo Estados Unidos reciben ayuda para pagar su cobertura de salud a través de créditos fiscales para primas (también conocidos como créditos fisc...

The Importance of Premium Tax Credits: Affording Health Insurance Coast to Coast

Currently, nearly 20 million people across the United States get help paying for their health coverage through premium tax credits (also known as advance premium tax credits, or APTCs), which they can...

Protecting Your Coverage and Care: Cracking Down on Scam Health Insurance Plans

The Biden administration is taking huge strides to protect individuals and families in the U.S. by cracking down on insurance providers and brokers that purport to offer “affordable” coverage opti...

Testimony of Sophia Tripoli Before the House Budget Committee On “Breaking Up Health Care Monopolies: Examining the Budgetary Effects of Health Care Consolidation”

Chairman Arrington, Ranking Member Boyle, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify at this critical hearing focused on the budgetary effects of health care consolidation and ...

Achieving the Gold Standard of Care: Transforming Pregnancy-related Medicaid Coverage to be More Holistic and Patient-centered

This is part 10 of the Health Justice Now series. Families USA held a live panel discussion on the ways that state Medicaid programs can improve pregnancy outcomes and the overall health of pregnan...