Insights Column
Our Courts Are Deciding the Future of Childhood Vaccines: What Advocates Need to Know.
President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy are reshaping America’s public health infrastructure by taking unprecedented steps to alter the childhood vaccine schedule — changes driven by ideology ra...
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The Program That’s Actually Lowering Drug Prices
For decades, policymakers talked about lowering prescription drug prices — in 2022, Congress actually did something about it by passing the Inflation Reduction Act which gave Medicare, for the f...
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Deadline Day: Enroll in 2026 Health Coverage Today
Open enrollment for marketplace coverage closes in most of the country today. If you have not yet enrolled in coverage for 2026 or were auto-enrolled in a plan, here are some tips: Go to...
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Families USA Kicks Off 2026 By Uniting Advocates at 31st Annual Health Action Conference
Recapping Health Action 2026, and spotlighting two Families USA storytellers who testified before Congress Families USA kicked off the year with more than 700 health care advocates in Washington, D.C...
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Stop the Attacks on Our Communities, Including Our Health
Given our mission to advance health and health care for all, Families USA stands in support and solidarity with the people of Minnesota and across the country to end the current Administration attacks...
View MoreMedicaid State Directed Payment for Primary Care and Behavioral Health Providers: Opportunities that Remain and Challenges Ahead
Among the many provisions in the 2025 Republican budget bill (H.R. 1) that gut Medicaid, one of the most consequential is the imposition of new limits on directed payments, which states use to boost r...
View MoreWhat 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 costs as the top ...
View MoreHealth 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 Inadm...
View MoreFederal 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 an...
View MoreState 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 ...
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