Health Equity

Advancing Health Equity through Telehealth Interventions during COVID-19 and Beyond: Policy Recommendations and Promising State Models

Due to COVID-19, states are making major policy and regulatory changes to expand health systems’ telehealth capabilities to meet the needs of patients and providers. This shift has tremendous potent...

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 ...

Health Equity

Advancing Health Equity through Telehealth Interventions during COVID-19 and Beyond: Policy Recommendations and Promising State Models

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Addressing Health Inequities in the Era of COVID-19