Health Equity

Health Consequences of a Mifepristone Ban Infographic

As courts weigh extremist attacks on mifepristone, one of the safest drugs on the market, it is important to consider the dire consequences that allowing judicial interference in the FDA gold-standard...

Need for Oral Health Improvements Finally Being Heard in Congress

Oral health is key to overall health and wellness, employment opportunities, economic stability, and social connectedness. Policymakers have the power--- and arguably the responsibility-- to enact pol...

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

Families USA comments in support of the proposed changes to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards with a few additional recommendations on how to furth...

Families USA and the Black Mamas Matter Alliance Respond to the Senate HELP Committee’s Workforce Shortage RFI

Families USA is a leading national, non-partisan voice for health care consumers that centers our work around four pillars: value, equity, coverage, and consumer experience. Black Mamas Matter Allianc...

2023 Health Justice Advocate of the Year for Health Equity – Brittney A Newton

"2023 Health Justice Advocate of the Year for Health Equity - Brittney A Newton" [embed]https://youtu.be/TUjajIufjEg[/embed] Families USA has recognized Brittney A. Newton, MPH, Sr. Policy Analyst...

Protecting Access to Essential Reproductive Health Services Post-Dobbs

The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has dramatically shifted the reproductive health landscape in states, severely limiting access to abortion care and other reproductive health services for millions o...

Working Toward True Health Care Payment Reform to Ensure Our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients

The way the US pays for health care is a major driver of unaffordable, low-quality care and poor health for our nation's families and individuals. Despite a decade of payment reform, volume-based paym...

Do the Right Thing: Shifting Health Care Payment Systems to Value-Based Incentives to Achieve Health Equity and Promote Racial Justice

The following report details the potential of payment reform to transform our health care system into one that facilitates health equity and promotes racial justice by comprehensively providing disenf...

Health Justice Now Webinar Series Part 9: Dismantling the Stigmas: Caring for survivors of domestic violence and addressing mental health in Latino/Latinx communities

This is part 9 of the Health Justice Now series. Families USA held a live discussion on integrated healthcare approaches with Jennifer Haddad Bell, the Program Consultant of Futures without Violenc...

The Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States Got Worse During the Pandemic: Congress Must Act to Save Mothers’ Lives

Medicaid plays an essential role in maternal health, paying for almost half of all births. Federal law requires states to cover pregnancy, labor, and delivery care for low-income women through Medicai...