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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 coverageÂ...
View MoreChildren’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...
View MoreThe 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...
View MoreCongress 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...
View MoreCongress 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...
View MoreSen. 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 ...
View MoreSenator 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.Â...
View MoreFour 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...
View MoreStill 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...
View MoreGun Violence Threatens the Health of Our Nation
Fed up with excuses for why policy makers cannot do anything to stop gun violence, Families USA--along with more than 170 national and state partners--are demanding action. Today, we sent a letter to ...
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