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What Americans Really Want for the Holidays This Year

Lowering the cost of health care is at the top of nearly every American’s wish list this year. In polls and at the ballot box, voters of all ideologies have singled out health care… Read more.

12.23.2025 / Anthony Wright, / Insights Blog

Health Access on The Line: How Trump’s Proposed Public Charge Rule Hurts All of Us and Weakens Our Health Care System

Last week, Families USA submitted a comment on a proposed rule from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) titled Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility. This proposed rule… Read more.

12.22.2025 / Christine Nguyen, Emma Green, Staci Lofton, / Insights Blog

Federal Officials Have Spoken, and Now it’s the States’ Turn: “Lookback Period” for Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

The Republican budget bill passed in July 2025 included massive cuts to health care and an upheaval of Medicaid eligibility requirements that will make it harder for millions of Americans to get on and… Read more.

12.19.2025 / Mary-Beth Malcarney, / Insights Blog

State Action Needed to Maintain Access to Reproductive Health: What Advocates Can Do

In the wake of the devastating Republican health care cuts, including sweeping reductions to Medicaid and the ACA, millions of Americans are being forced to grapple with the fallout. Patients seeking reproductive health care,… Read more.

12.16.2025 / Mackenzie Marshall, Alicia Camaliche, Ben Anderson, / Insights Blog

What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026

Last Updated on TODAY, December 15, is the deadline to enroll in a health care plan to guarantee you are covered on January 1, 2026. It also signals that only one month remains to… Read more.

12.15.2025 / Nicholas Chang, / Insights Blog

Congress Must Extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits and Lower Health Care Costs Now

There are just a few weeks left for Congress to act and extend the enhanced premium tax credits that lower health care costs for millions of Americans. If Congress does nothing, premiums will skyrocket… Read more.

12.09.2025 / Kasey Hampton, / Insights Blog

Unprecedented Changes by a Little-Known Committee That Controls Our Vaccine Access

This week, a little-known federal committee is meeting to make decisions that could fundamentally change our access to lifesaving vaccines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has protected American health for decades under… Read more.

12.04.2025 / Naomi Fener, / Insights Blog

Trump Administration Shuts Down Public Input, Undermining Transparency, Health Equity and Good Policy

HHS Must Reinstate the Richardson Waiver, A Critical Tool for Equitable and Transparent Health Policy Earlier this year, the Trump Administration rescinded the “Richardson waiver,” ending over 50 years of precedent in seeking public… Read more.

12.02.2025 / Emma Green, Maya Holcomb, / Insights Blog

Republicans’ Harmful Budget Cuts and Attacks Are Undermining Immigrants’ Health Care

Immigrant Communities Receive the First of Many Blows as States Tackle Federal Funding Cuts As states grapple with implementing the health care funding cuts passed in HR1, many immigrants are losing their health coverage,… Read more.

11.17.2025 / Christine Nguyen, / Insights Blog

Getting Ready for Open Enrollment

In the wake of the Republican health care cuts and the Trump administration’s changes to ACA marketplace rules, and in the midst of a government shutdown due in part to Congress’s lack of action… Read more.

10.27.2025 / Nicholas Chang, / Insights Blog

Smoke and Mirrors vs. Policy and Meaningful Change: What’s Real and What’s Political Theater in the Fight for Lower Prescription Drug Prices

For too long, Americans have struggled to pay the price of medications they need, with politicians on both sides of the aisle promising action. In Washington, D.C. and in states across the country, new… Read more.

10.20.2025 / Hazel Law, / Insights Blog

Sowing Distrust and Dismantling Science: Escalating Threats to Vaccine Access

Vaccines represent some of the greatest public health achievements in history, building on science, expert policy and public trust to strengthen America’s security and protect millions of lives across generations. From the U.S. eradication… Read more.

10.10.2025 / Naomi Fener, Kiersten Zinyengere, Megan Rossiter, / Insights Blog

What the Government Shutdown Debate is Really About: Health Care Tax Credits for Working Class Americans

Vice President JD Vance outright lied when he posted on X and said on Fox News that the government shutdown is over demands for illegal immigrants to get health care. No such demands exist.… Read more.

10.01.2025 / Anthony Wright, / Insights Blog

Behind the Numbers: The Real Americans who will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire

Across the country, 22 million Americans use health care tax credits to afford their health care coverage. With costs for everything rising, from groceries to rent to health care, without the support of these… Read more.

09.25.2025 / Lauren Rubenstein, / Insights Blog

Vulnerable, Working Class Americans will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire

Millions of people benefit from premium tax credits that help them buy and afford health coverage on healthcare.gov or on state-based marketplaces. In light of rising health care costs and the huge impact they… Read more.

09.25.2025 / Cheryl Fish-Parcham, / Insights Blog

The Biggest Threats to Maternal Health Lurking in President Trump’s Health Care Cuts

Republican health care cuts exceeding $1 trillion threaten to destabilize maternal health, posing significant risks to postpartum coverage and reproductive health care, support systems on which millions of mothers rely. Medicaid is the cornerstone… Read more.