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Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”

Earlier this month, President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law. Now, families brace...

Families USA Submits Comments On Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations — Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole Proposed Rule

CMS proposes a major policy change to its existing waiver process concerning health care-related taxes — important funding mechanisms that help states finance their share of Medicaid costs. Families...

Families USA Submits Comments On the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan 1115 Demonstration Amendment

Families USA urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay decision making on the proposed IHAWP amendment, to provide time after the passage of the new federal law to do the pro...

Actions by Trump and Congress are Leading to Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums in 2026

President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress just passed the big budget bill which included the biggest cut to our health care system in history — $1 trillion — and put into law several d...

Marketplace Final Rule Sets Major Hurdles to Coverage

The Trump administration finalized a dangerous rule that will make it much harder for people to enroll in ACA marketplace plans and will raise the price of ACA coverage. HHS estimates that over 1.8 mi...

Working America Relies on Medicaid: Congress Must Protect Essential Workers from Devastating Medicaid Cuts

In light of Congressional Republican efforts to pass a budget bill that cuts Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, Families USA conducted an original analysis detailing the s...

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Force Rural Hospitals to the Brink of Closure

To highlight the impact of looming Congressional Medicaid cuts on hospital finances across the country, and particularly in rural communities, Families USA conducted a new analysis to estimate the pot...

Congress’ Provider Tax Proposals Would Be A Huge Blow to State Budgets

Proposals in the House-passed and Senate-proposed budget bills to freeze and/or cut health care provider taxes put all state Medicaid budgets in an extremely precarious position. What’s more, these ...

Harmful Impacts of Proposed House and Senate Budget Bills: What Is at Stake for the 10 States That Have Not Yet Expanded Medicaid

The House budget bill passed by congressional Republicans would cut $1.1 trillion from health care, resulting in 16 million Americans losing coverage and affecting health systems across all 50 states....

Details of Provisions Related to Medicare, Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act

The House Budget Bill passed by Congressional Republicans would cause 16 million Americans to lose health care coverage, drive-up health care costs for consumers and states, and force cuts to hospital...