Insights Column

What 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 ...

Health 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...

Federal 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...

State 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 ...

What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026

TODAY, December 15, is the deadline to enroll in a health care plan to guarantee you are covered on January 1, 2026. It also signals that only one month remains to enroll in marketplace coverage for t...

Congress Must Extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits and Lower Health Care Costs Now

There are just a few weeks left for Congress to act and extend the enhanced premium tax credits that lower health care costs for millions of Americans. If Congress does nothing, premiums will skyrocke...

Unprecedented Changes by a Little-Known Committee That Controls Our Vaccine Access

This week, a little-known federal committee is meeting to make decisions that could fundamentally change our access to lifesaving vaccines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has ...

Trump Administration Shuts Down Public Input, Undermining Transparency, Health Equity and Good Policy

HHS Must Reinstate the Richardson Waiver, A Critical Tool for Equitable and Transparent Health Policy Earlier this year, the Trump Administration rescinded the “Richardson waiver,” ending over 50...

Republicans’ Harmful Budget Cuts and Attacks Are Undermining Immigrants’ Health Care

Immigrant Communities Receive the First of Many Blows as States Tackle Federal Funding Cuts As states grapple with implementing the health care funding cuts passed in HR1, many immigrants are losing ...

Getting Ready for Open Enrollment

In the wake of the Republican health care cuts and the Trump administration’s changes to ACA marketplace rules, and in the midst of a government shutdown due in part to Congress’s lack of action t...