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Former CMS Administrators and Health Care Leaders Support Efforts by Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, Families USA and United States of Care to Enact Key COVID-19 Health Reforms

Former Administrators of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Health Care Leaders have sent a letter to Congress in support of enacting the COVID-19 Health Care Response and Resili...

Consumers First Comment Letter to the Federal Government on the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

Consumers First is an alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, children, employers, labor unions, and primary care working to change the fundamental economic incentives and design of ...

Medicare Oral Health Coverage: A Winning Issue (Statement to the Presidental Platform Committees)

Families USA is proud to join our partners in the Medicare Oral Health Coalition in the following statement encouraging the Presidential Platform Committees to prioritize Medicare oral health coverage...

Families USA’s Federal Comment Letter On Oklahoma’s Soonercare 2.0 1115 Waiver

Families USA submitted this letter in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ request for comments on Oklahoma’s proposed section 1115 waiver to institute a work reporting re...

Federal Comment Letter on the Flint, Michigan Section 1115 Extension Request

Families USA submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the state of Michigan’s request to renew the Flint, Michigan Section 1115 waiver. The waiver expands Me...

Consumers First Letter to Congress Urging Action on COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health and economic crisis in the United States. Three months after the U.S. made its first COVID-19 diagnosis, more than a million people have contracted th...

Over 400 Organizations Call on Congress to Prioritize Families’ Health in Next COVID-19 Relief Package

On April 23rd, 2020, Families USA led over 400 national, state, and community organizations in this letter to Congress outlining key health and health care priorities for the next COVID-19 response le...

Health Equity Task Force Letter to Capitol Hill on COVID-19

On April 23, the Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation, a Families USA coalition of national and state health equity advocates, sent a letter to Capitol Hill strongly urging...

Families USA’s State Comment Letter on Oklahoma’s Per Capita Cap 1115 Waiver

Families USA submitted this letter in response to Oklahoma’s request for comments on its proposed section 1115 waiver to institute a per capita cap that limits federal funding for the state’s Medi...

Response to Senate Finance Committee’s RFI on Solutions to Improve Maternal Health

Families USA, Every Mother Counts and March for Moms, organizations committed to the development of the strongest possible policies to support the health and wellbeing of moms and babies, responded to...