Health Equity

Powerful Group of Senators Urge CMS to Improve Medically Necessary Medicare Dental Coverage

In this letter, a powerful group of Senators urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use its existing authority to further improve coverage of medically necessary dental care in M...

Investing in our Moms: Three Ways State Medicaid Programs Can Improve Maternal Health

The United States is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Women are dying at rates the U.S. has not experienced since the 1960s. Maternal mortality rates increased by nearly 38% year-over-year fr...

40 States In, 10 States to Go: Medicaid Expansion, A Critical Step to Closing the Health Coverage Gap

After what seemed to be endless years of legislative opposition, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper finally signed Medicaid Expansion into law on March 27, 2023. So, what does this mean for North Caro...

Health Equity Task Force: 2023 Federal Priorities

The Families USA Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Reform (Health Equity Task Force) brings together the leading organizations on the federal and state level working to ensure that eff...

115 House Representatives Urge CMS to Improve Medicare’s “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage

In this letter, 115 members of the House of Representatives are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use its existing authority to further improve coverage of medically neces...

From Amarillo, Texas to Your Medicine Cabinet – Extremist Judges Are Paving the Way for Religious Ideology not Science to Determine Your Family’s Access to Prescription Medications

In the last three weeks, ideological judges – from Texas all the way up to the Supreme Court --have been weighing in on a consequential decision by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in All...

Health Equity

Powerful Group of Senators Urge CMS to Improve Medically Necessary Medicare Dental Coverage

Investing in our Moms: Three Ways State Medicaid Programs Can Improve Maternal Health

40 States In, 10 States to Go: Medicaid Expansion, A Critical Step to Closing the Health Coverage Gap

Health Equity Task Force: 2023 Federal Priorities

115 House Representatives Urge CMS to Improve Medicare’s “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage

From Amarillo, Texas to Your Medicine Cabinet – Extremist Judges Are Paving the Way for Religious Ideology not Science to Determine Your Family’s Access to Prescription Medications

HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Comment Letter

Health Consequences of a Mifepristone Ban Infographic

Need for Oral Health Improvements Finally Being Heard in Congress

Families USA Comments on the “Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards”