Health Care Value
Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Legislative Hearing
Consumers First, the alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives a...
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The Power of Price Transparency: Unveiling Health Care Prices to Promote Accountability and Lower Costs
Every person should have the right to know what a health care procedure costs at different hospitals or health care facilities, whether it is an X-ray, an MRI, or a surgery, yet that is not how it wor...
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Health Consequences of a Mifepristone Ban Infographic
As courts weigh extremist attacks on mifepristone, one of the safest drugs on the market, it is important to consider the dire consequences that allowing judicial interference in the FDA gold-standard...
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Families USA Comments to CMS Medicare Drug Negotiation Guidance
On March 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance on how they will implement the Medicare drug negotiation process, including how they will develop the “Maximum Fai...
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The Fight for Lower Drug Prices: How to Engage in Inflation Reduction Act Implementation
On April 5 Families USA hosted a webinar providing key information to advocates on how and when they can engage with the Inflation Reduction Act implementation in order to ensure the promise of lower ...
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Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee
Consumers First, the alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives a...
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Sophia Tripoli Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on “Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care”
In this March 28 testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Sophia Tripoli, Director of Families USA's Center for Affordable Whole-Person Care, discusses the health care affor...
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Advocacy Resource: Ensuring the Medicare Drug Negotiation Program Prioritizes Families and Consumers
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) was a critical moment in the effort to achieve lower and more affordable drug costs. Most notably, the IRA finally gave Medicare the authority to negotiate pr...
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Keeping Health Insurance Affordable in Illinois: Why We Need Robust Rate Review
For many individuals and small businesses, the cost of health insurance is unaffordable, unpredictable and likely to keep rising — unless Illinois takes action now. Unlike in many other states, Illi...
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2023 Health Justice Advocate of the Year for Health Care Value – Adam Fox
"2023 Health Justice Advocate of the Year for Health Care Value - Adam Fox" [embed]https://youtu.be/mN3Uxoq1IEk[/embed] Families USA has recognized Adam Fox, Deputy Director of Colorado Consumer H...
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