Health Care Value

Medicare’s Drug Benefit: With Regulatory Action Off the Table, All Eyes Are on Capitol Hill

On May 16th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a final regulation for Medicare’s Part D drug benefit for 2020.  The regulation backed off of a proposal that would have crea...

Representative Doggett’s Medicare Negotiation Proposal to Meaningfully Lower Drug Prices

High and rising drug prices jeopardize consumers’ health and well-being.1 To address the harms of high drug prices, families across America want and deserve meaningful reforms that target and reduc...

Consumers First Launch Social Media Toolkit

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We all want value for the dollar when we make a big purchase. Especially when we buy something expensive, we want to know that we're getting a high-quality product that makes a hit to the bank account...

Families USA’s Letter to Capitol Hill on Support for Surprise Billing Legislation

On August 13, Families USA sent this letter to Capitol Hill offering support for legislation to end “surprise billing,” along with specific recommendations for lawmakers as they consider legisla...

Texas vs. United States: What’s at stake for Veterans

State and federal opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have filed a lawsuit asking the courts to throw out the entire ACA, based on Congress’s 2017 decision to eliminate the tax penalty for pe...

Maryland’s Path to a Prescription Drug Affordability Board

Written by Catherine Kirk Robins, Deputy Director, Maryland Citizen’s Health Initiative The drug pricing system in this country is broken. Lifesaving medicines are frequently priced out of reach,...

Colorado will finally protect patients from surprise medical bills

Written by Caitlin Westerson, Director of Legislative Affairs at Colorado Consumer Health Initiative In September 2016, Zoe Williams got the text message that no parent wants to get: her 3-year old...

Surprise Medical Bills: Rep. Doggett’s Bill Would Protect Consumers

Yesterday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the End Surprise Billing Act, legislation to protect health care consumers from surprise medical bills. Families USA is thrilled to endorse this le...

How Expanding Medicaid Saves Medicare Money

A recent report from the Government Accounting Office(GAO) points to one more reason why expanding health coverage under the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) makes good economic sense. Expanding Medi...