Health Equity

Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform for Children as a Tool to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Communities

Note: This analysis was co-authored by Families USA and Futures without Violence. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its disproportionate impact on low-income people and people of color, has starkly demons...

COVID 19: Recommendations for Congressional Action to Support Equity-Focused Contact Tracing

With cases of COVID-19 rising in communities across the U.S., contact tracing is one part of the work that must be done to combat this virus. Equity-focused contact tracing is an essential, scientific...

Highlights from the States: Innovative Programs to Support Children during COVID-19

Based on current research, children are less likely than adults to contract COVID-19 or to have significant health consequences because of a COVID-19 infection. However, children have been impacted by...

Consumers First on the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule Video

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Consumers First Comment Letter to the Federal Government on the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

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

En esta crisis del COVID-19, ¿está sin seguro médico?

Siempre es importante tener un seguro médico, en especial, durante una crisis sanitaria mundial. El seguro médico ayuda a pagar las pruebas médicas y los cuidados relacionados con la pandemia del ...

Medicare Oral Health Coverage: A Winning Issue (Statement to the Presidental Platform Committees)

Families USA is proud to join our partners in the Medicare Oral Health Coalition in the following statement encouraging the Presidential Platform Committees to prioritize Medicare oral health coverage...

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Federal and State Policy Recommendations to Address COVID-19 Health Inequities

Public conversations surrounding COVID-19 health outcomes in Black and Latino communities must address the role of structural racism, including how community trauma, neighborhood disinvestment, and en...

Addressing Health Inequities in the Era of COVID-19

Families USA created an infographic to supplement "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Federal and State Policy Recommendations to Address Health Inequities in the Era of COVID-19." The companion report can be...

Trump Administration’s Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Exacerbates Health Disparities in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the middle of a pandemic that has already claimed more than 115,000 American lives, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final regulation of the Affordable Care Act that ...