Health Care Value

Nearly 200 Advocates Send Key Principles for COVID-19 Relief Sent to the Administration and Congress

This letter, sent by a broad range of stakeholders concerned about health coverage, supports the American Rescue Act proposed by the 117th Congress. This legislation recognizes the immediate opportuni...

Securing Our Healthy Future: A Road Map for the 117th Congress to Improve Health and Health Care in Every American Community

The 117th U.S. Congress is convening at a pivotal moment in the history of our nation. We face a significant set of challenges, but also a momentous opportunity to greatly improve the lives of struggl...

Rx Drugs Roundtable: Costs, Access, and Affordability

Scores of families across the nation routinely make hard choices between paying for their life-saving medications and necessities such as food, gas, and utilities. Following a tumultuous year of histo...

Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation: Eight Recommendations for Federal Policy Priorities in 2021

In the new presidential term and the 117th Congress, it is imperative that we have bold, innovative leadership to steer us through one of the biggest health and economic crises in generations and embr...

Consumers First Letter to Biden Transition Team on Key Administrative Priorities

Consumers First, the alliance that brings together diverse interests representing families and children, working people, employers and primary care providers to improve the fundamental economic incent...

Partnerships between providers and advocates: A key to oral health integration in a value‐based care environment

Families USA is proud to be part of a newly released special issue of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, A System Ripe for Change: Progressing Value-Based Care in Oral Health. Value‐based care...

Webinar Preview: United for Health- An Advocate’s Guide to Messaging with Shared Values

On Thursday, December 17, for Families USA hosted our webinar, United for Health: An Advocate’s Guide to Messaging with Shared Values. In this session, we released our new messaging guide, United fo...

United for Health: Messages that bridge the political divide to finish the job on health reform (ABRIDGED VERSION)

If we want to break through the political noise and make real, lasting change, it’s time to talk about health and health care differently. This guide is a science-based messaging tool for advocates,...

Affordable Medicines Are Still Elusive: America’s Families Want Fair Prices

Time and again, people in America recount the increasingly grim trade-offs they must make to afford health care. Today, one in every two people fears bankruptcy due to an unaffordable medical event. F...

Measuring and Improving the Quality of Medicaid-Funded Care to Reduce Disparities in Health and Health Care Outcomes: A Primer for Health Equity Advocates

Despite notable disparities in health status and access to high-quality health care in communities of color and other minority populations, the United States health care system has not prioritized ach...