Health Equity

Over 65 million Women Are Counting on the FDA to Maintain Access to Mifepristone

Access to reproductive care continues to be the focus of consequential decisions made in Washington D.C., including by perhaps unlikely people, like the potential leader of the U.S. Food and Drug Admi...

Families USA Joins Public Citizen Amicus Brief to Defend Cost-Free Preventive Services

Families USA and other nonprofit organizations filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Robert F Kennedy et al. v Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. The Braidwood case challenges the Afforda...

Making Health Care Affordable: Reining In Health Industry Abuses To Lower People’s Costs and Generate Budget Savings

After a national election that focused on affordability, Families USA’s new affordability agenda outlines a list of concrete and actionable policy recommendations that would result in lower health c...

30 Organizations Send Letter to Alabama Governor Ivey on Expanding Access to Continuous Glucose Monitors

30 organizations representing patients, providers and diabetics, have sent a letter asking Governor Kay Ivey to update Alabama Medicaid policy to expand access to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). C...

Families USA’s Comments on Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2026

Families USA commented on the annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters that affects Marketplace coverage for 2026. Our comments focused on: Ways Navigators and assisters might help people ...

November Is Diabetes Awareness Month

Raise Awareness! Every November, Diabetes Awareness Month is observed to raise awareness about the impact of diabetes, a chronic disease that affects millions of people in America. There are multip...

Pregnant woman with a continuous glucose monitor.

Better Health, Stronger Families: Improving Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Alabama

Diabetes prevalence in Alabama is an ongoing threat, and Alabamians experience some of the highest rates of diabetes in the country. Unmanaged diabetes can have devastating health consequences, and to...

Comment on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule “Medically Necessary” Coverage

Families USA, along with a broad cross section of national and state level advocates for families, patients, older adults, and people with disabilities, has submitted comments to the Centers for Medic...

Charting the Course for Community Health Workers: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities to Secure Medicaid Reimbursement for CHWs in State Medicaid Programs

Improved integration of the community-based health care workforce, such as community health workers (CHWs), is an evidence-based, cost-effective way to help communities. Through their work, CHWs aim t...

Prioritizing Mental Health Means Ensuring Comprehensive Coverage and Services

Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about the importance of prioritizing mental health. But if you or a loved one have ever struggled to find a mental health provider for someone in crisis or f...