Analyses

Community Voices: Recommendations to State Policymakers for Advancing Health Equity

As policymakers across the U.S. move to address health inequities, community-based voices should be central in setting the policy agenda. To that end, Families USA interviewed leaders from 50 state- a...

Build Back Better Framework: Key Health Care Provisions that Will Improve the Lives of Millions of America’s Families

The health care components of the Build Back Better Act as proposed in the House on October 28th and then amended November 3rd include historic accomplishments. Among other notable achievements, the b...

Equity in COVID-19 Vaccines: Emerging Lessons from the Front Lines

COVID-19 exposed the problems with our health system, and it has shown what needs to change. As our nation recovers from the pandemic, we must build a "new normal" that prioritizes the communities hit...

The American Rescue Plan Makes the Greatest Improvements to Health Coverage and Affordability in More than a Decade

The American Rescue Plan (ARP), which President Biden recently signed into law, takes the most significant steps in more than a decade to lower families’ health care costs and provide insurance to p...

Congress Can Provide Millions of Uninsured Workers with Health Care by Connecting Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries with Health Insurance Premium Tax Credits

The version of the HEROES bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed on October 1, 2020, proposed to connect people who benefit from unemployment insurance (UI) with advance premium tax credit...

Congress Should Act Quickly to Protect Oral Health Coverage for People Hit Hardest by COVID-19

Every family in America should be able to afford the care we all need to stay healthy, eat, work, and live pain free. Oral health care is essential for overall health and wellness, including combattin...

Partnerships between providers and advocates: A key to oral health integration in a value‐based care environment

Families USA is proud to be part of a newly released special issue of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, A System Ripe for Change: Progressing Value-Based Care in Oral Health. Value‐based care...

Medicaid Enrollment In The Age Of COVID-19: A Nine-Month Analysis Of Trends Across The Nation

From February through November 2020, Families USA has closely monitored state-by state Medicaid enrollment related to COVID-19 and the economic downturn. Throughout the summer and fall, we observed ra...

President-Elect Biden Can Take Administrative Action To Dramatically Cut Consumers’ Health Care Costs And Cover Millions of Uninsured

NOTE: This blog was originally published in Health Affairs on December 7th, 2020. In his first press conference as President-elect, Joe Biden reminded the nation of his commitment to “do everythi...

Turning Coverage Into Care: How Advocates Can Leverage Administrative Services Organization Contracts to Improve Medicaid Oral Health Benefits For Consumers

While Medicaid adult oral health coverage is foundational for ensuring that all people have access to quality, affordable care, it works only if people know they are eligible for oral health care, hav...