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Reproductive Rights as Essential Health Care Defending and advancing reproductive rights is critical to advancing health equity, protecting personal freedom, and ensuring access to affordable, high-quality health care. That includes safeguarding access to abortion, contraception,…
Pride Month is a celebration — and this year, making time for that joy is more important than ever. The LGBTQ+ community is under sustained attack. Research into our health is being defunded. Medically necessary care is being restricted or…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its much-anticipated interim final rule with comment period (IFC) on June 1, 2026, providing guidance to states as to how they must implement new burdensome work reporting requirements in…
On June 10, 2026, Families USA Senior Director for Health Policy Sophia Tripoli testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in a hearing, “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining…
Families USA submitted comments on proposed Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulation for Fiscal Year 2027. Changes made through the IPPS rule offer an important opportunity to both strengthen the Medicare program…
Families USA submitted a statement for the record for the June 4 House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet hearing on "Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access." In…
Americans are increasingly struggling to manage rising health care expenses and are fearful of what a medical emergency could mean for their finances. Prescription drugs are — as they have been for decades —…
People who buy coverage individually through the marketplace will face new hurdles and weaker protections under a final rule issued by the Trump administration, which promotes plans with higher deductibles and cost-sharing, allows plans with no provider…
When Congress debated and ultimately passed H.R. 1 last year, health advocates warned the results would be deadly. Cutting $1 trillion from the health care system — with the majority of it coming from…
Today, Families USA submitted a statement for the record ahead of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on “Examining the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, MACRA, and Opportunities for Payment Reforms.” The statement recommends…