Health Care Value

California’s Office of Health Care Affordability: An Opportunity to Realize True Affordability

California is facing a health care affordability crisis resulting in some of the highest and most varying health care costs in the country. Behind the state’s extreme health care unaffordability are...

Families USA Statement for the Record for House Education and Workforce Mark-Up of Health Care Legislation

Families USA submitted the attached statement for the record to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in advance of their mark-up of legislation related to health coverage, including: H.R...

Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Consolidation

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...

Gaming the System: How Hospitals Are Driving Up Health Care Costs by Abusing Site of Service

Health care providers should be reimbursed at a level that supports the most efficient, highest quality care irrespective of the location in which it is provided – this is a foundational principle i...

Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Legislative Hearing

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...

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...

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...

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 ...