Insights Column

The Tax Bill’s Sneak Attack on Health Care for Millions

The latest version of the partisan tax bill that Republican leadership is working to rush through Congress presents new dangers to health care and health insurance for millions of families in America....

Senator Murkowski: Repealing the Individual Mandate Will Make the Insurance Market Worse

Yesterday, Senator Lisa Murkowski—one of the three Republican Senators to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act last July—endorsed a policy that would repeal the Affordable Care Act coverage�...

Children’s Health Can’t Wait: Congressional CHIP Briefing

On December 1, Families USA partnered with First Focus to give congressional staff the opportunity to hear how states are handling the unprecedented delay in funding for the Children's Health Insuranc...

The Tax Bill Is Bad for America’s Health

Update 12/20: Congress passed the tax plan and President Trump will sign it into law soon. Both the rushed, secretive process used to draft the bill and the bill itself are travesties. The tax p...

Congress Must Act Quickly to Protect Dreamers and Our Nation’s Future

Central to our core value that every single human being deserves an equitable chance to enjoy the best health possible is that no one is excluded. Not even if they were born outside of the United Stat...

Congress Must Act Immediately to Pass Long-Term Funding for CHIP

Yesterday marked the 100th day since Congress let funding lapse for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a critical source of health coverage for many families. Covering 9 million childre...

Sen. Cory Booker’s Speech at Health Action 2018: No Liberty without Affordable Health Care

"We cannot be a country that believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if people do not have access to health care. Where is the liberty when you are chained to the fear that if one ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Speech to the Health Action 2018 Conference

At the 23rd Annual Health Action Conference, Sen. Elizabeth Warren laid out a plan for addressing the high health care costs and high health insurance costs that cause pain to so many families.�...

Four More Years of CHIP Is Great News for Children and Families

The budget agreement Congress passed in the wee hours of the morning includes more good news for the 9 million children who rely on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their health co...

Still Lurking: Federal Threats to Health Care

Just over a year ago, congressional Republican leadership began its all-out campaign on affordable and comprehensive health care—an effort that morphed and intensified through all of 2017. The unpre...