Health Care Value

Our Health Care System Has Lost Its Way

This is the first resource in Families USA's People First Care initiative. There are two principal financial drivers of unaffordable, inequitable health care and poor health for the American people...

Consumers First Response to Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice Request for Information on Merger Enforcement

Consumers First, an alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, children, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to change the fundamental economic incentives and d...

Families USA Comments in Response to Shaheen-Collins-DeGette-Reed Request for Feedback on Insulin Caps Framework

Families USA recently submitted the attached response to a request for comment on the legislative framework released by Senators Collins and Shaheen and Representatives DeGette and Reed that seeks to ...

Consumers First Recommendations to the Healthy Futures Task Force

Members of the Consumers First steering committee sent the attached letter in response to a series of requests for information by the Healthy Futures Task Force, which is a House of Representatives ta...

Hospital Consolidation – How Hospitals’ Machinations Affect Real People

Stories about hospital mergers are filling newspaper front pages across the country. But what does this consolidation of power mean for people who show up at the ER in the scariest moment of their lif...

Advancing Equity in 2022: Federal Policy Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Health System Transformation

Our nation must heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color and exposed painful but persistent truths about structural inequities in access to...

Kicking Off 2022 by Revitalizing the Fight for Health Justice Now

Advocates in the fight for health care justice – the ability of everyone to live their healthiest life – have hit the ground running in 2022. Families USA Executive Director Frederick Isasi, put w...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s Remarks at Health Action Conference 2022

Rep. Lloyd Doggett's Remarks at Health Action Conference 2022 [embed]https://youtu.be/ynTDmXZSs8c[/embed]

Q&A with Rep. Kim Schrier at Health Action Conference 2022

Q&A with Rep. Kim Schrier at Health Action Conference 2022 [embed]https://youtu.be/ABt8T-I7Tcw[/embed]

Fireside Chat with Frederick Isasi and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra at Health Action Conference 2022

Fireside Chat with Frederick Isasi and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra at Health Action Conference 2022 [embed]https://youtu.be/Jt_6jCSE4LY[/embed] ...