Health Equity
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Florida’s Legislature Must Expand Medicaid Now to Protect Workers
As the COVID-19 crisis worsens, it is vital that all Americans have health insurance coverage to access testing and treatment. Yet thousands of working Floridians are rapidly losing their jobs and the...
View MoreOver 400 Organizations Call on Congress to Prioritize Families’ Health in Next COVID-19 Relief Package
On April 23rd, 2020, Families USA led over 400 national, state, and community organizations in this letter to Congress outlining key health and health care priorities for the next COVID-19 response le...
View MoreHealth Equity Task Force Letter to Capitol Hill on COVID-19
On April 23, the Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation, a Families USA coalition of national and state health equity advocates, sent a letter to Capitol Hill strongly urging...
View MoreDr. Amber Hewitt, Ph.D: COVID-19 and Equity
[embed]https://youtu.be/nRZvjBdyeSo[/embed] Dr. Amber Hewitt, Director of Health Equity at Families USA, discusses the chilling effects that COVID-19 is having on the African American and other...
View MoreResponding To COVID-19: Using The CARES Act’s Hospital Fund To Help The Uninsured, Achieve Other Goals
NOTE: This blog was originally published in Health Affairs on April 11, 2020. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed by the President on March 27, 2020, includes ...
View MoreCOVID-19: State Opportunities and the Next Federal Response Package
As Congress begins to take action on “phase 4” legislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an important opportunity for health advocates to push for improved health coverage, acces...
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COVID-19 Policy Recommendations
The United States is facing its greatest public health emergency in more than a century. Less than three months after the U.S. made its first COVID-19 diagnosis, more than half a million people have c...
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Digital Toolkit: COVID-19 Related Resources
Updated with the following resources on 03/11/22 Key Messages America is in the throes of a profound crisis: deadly disease, economic downturn, and an erosion of families’ financial security. Ou...
View MoreResponse to Senate Finance Committee’s RFI on Solutions to Improve Maternal Health
Families USA, Every Mother Counts and March for Moms, organizations committed to the development of the strongest possible policies to support the health and wellbeing of moms and babies, responded to...
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Frequently Asked Questions: State Health Coverage Strategies for COVID-19
Click the download button below to see the answers to advocates' Frequently Asked Questions about state strategies to improve health coverage and access to care in light of the COVID 19 crisis. This r...
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