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Medicaid Expansion in Oklahoma: Creating jobs, Helping The State Budget Video

Stan Dorn and Carly Putnam discuss Medicaid Expansion in Oklahoma [embed]https://youtu.be/9B_uOmJ2QvM[/embed]

Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma: Creating jobs, Helping the State Budget, and Protecting Families

The COVID-19 recession, aggravated by worldwide drops in oil prices, has eliminated hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma jobs. Oklahoma voters have the opportunity to take a major step to address these s...

Webinar: Addressing the Fiscal Crisis in Communities Affected by COVID-19

States, localities, territories and Tribes are losing revenue at the same time as their resources are urgently needed to not only staff pandemic response and sustain health care services, but also to ...

Federal Comment Letter on the Flint, Michigan Section 1115 Extension Request

Families USA submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the state of Michigan’s request to renew the Flint, Michigan Section 1115 waiver. The waiver expands Me...

Aviva Williamson on her COVID-19 Experience

Aviva Williamson Shares Her Experience With COVID-19 [embed]https://youtu.be/sTs17rxJCyU[/embed]

Test, Trace, and Space: Investing in a Health Workforce to Prevent Pandemic Spread

As states and communities continue to re-open, the term “contact tracing” – like that of “flatten the curve” – has suddenly become a part of our regular national dialogue. In order to real...

Ensuring Comprehensive Health Coverage through the COVID-19 Crisis

With up to 15.8 million people expected to become uninsured nationwide due to the pandemic-incited recession, it is now more important than ever to advocate for comprehensive health coverage that ad...

Public Options and Other Policies to Lower Health Insurance Premiums Need Guardrails to Protect Low- and Moderate-Income Consumers

The RAND Corporation, in collaboration with Families USA's National Center for Coverage Innovation and leading national actuarial firms, just released a groundbreaking analysis of public options in th...

Video Storytelling: Medicaid Expansion Can Help Missouri Combat the COVID-19 Crisis

Note: Be sure to click on the links to see Missourians explain why the state needs to expand Medicaid. Medicaid Expansion Can Help Missouri Combat the COVID-19 Crisis Medicaid expansion has neve...

Options for designing a public option

NOTE: This blog was originally published in The RAND Blog on May 28, 2020. State and federal policymakers are considering adding state-backed public options to the individual market in an effort to...