Analyses

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...

Medicare Benefits Are Now In Danger: White House and Senate Strategy to Overturn the Health Reform Law Threatens Major Medicare Cuts

America’s elected officials should not receive better health care than what the American people can get. President Donald Trump and his Congressional allies enjoy excellent health care. But they are...

Wyoming Must Expand Medicaid Now to Protect Its Workers

In Wyoming, tens of thousands of working people are losing their jobs and their job-based health insurance as the country grapples with a massive public health crisis. Because Wyoming has not expanded...

Mississippi Must Expand Medicaid Now to Protect Its Workers

In Mississippi, tens of thousands of working people are losing their jobs and their job-based health insurance as the country grapples with a massive public health crisis. Because Mississippi has not ...

Protecting and Expanding Access to Oral Health in 2020: Learning from State Trends in Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage

Six months into the pandemic and resulting national economic crisis, state policymakers are making – and will continue to have to make – tough budget decisions. As advocates, it is our job to make...

America Needs a Plan to Save Jobs and Save Lives

America continues to be in the throes of a profound crisis: a deadly disease, an economic downturn, and an erosion of families’ financial security. Since May 15, when Congress passed the Health and ...

Rapid Increases in Medicaid Enrollment: A Review of Data from Six Months

In May, Families USA analyzed early trends in Medicaid enrollment related to COVID-19. That analysis highlighted states with early spikes in enrollment in the wake of the pandemic. Not surprisingly, a...

America’s Coverage Crisis Deepens: New Survey Data Show Millions of Adults Became Uninsured, Starting in Late June

Recent research by Families USA and others projects, based on past coverage patterns, that job losses from the COVID-19 economic crash are causing historic increases in the number of uninsured. A New ...

Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform for Children as a Tool to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Communities

Note: This analysis was co-authored by Families USA and Futures without Violence. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its disproportionate impact on low-income people and people of color, has starkly demons...

Highlights from the States: Innovative Programs to Support Children during COVID-19

Based on current research, children are less likely than adults to contract COVID-19 or to have significant health consequences because of a COVID-19 infection. However, children have been impacted by...