Issue Brief

Cheers to 59 Years of Medicare and Medicaid: Illuminating the Path Ahead

Serving a combined 150 million people in the U.S., ranging from seniors to infants and including adults, children, and people with disabilities, Medicare and Medicaid provide crucial access to care, i...

What’s Next in Maternal Health? Transforming Medicaid to Combat the Maternal Health Crisis

This new issue brief from Families USA uplifts the need to reimagine Medicaid maternal health coverage in order to help address the needs of expecting mothers and work towards solving the maternal hea...

Paying the Price: How Drug Manufacturers’ Greed Is Making Health Care Less Affordable for All of Us

Families across America are facing a health care affordability crisis, and the egregiously high costs of prescription drugs play a big part. People are forced to ration or skip their lifesaving and su...

Medicaid Managed Care: A Multibillion-Dollar Business With Little Oversight

Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are essential to the U.S. health care system and are responsible for delivering health care services through state Medicaid programs to nearly 60 million Ame...

Policy Development Strategies to Improve Maternal Health

Building a health care system that centers the needs of our mothers and babies requires new policy approaches: The United States is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Women are dying at rate...

How to Make Health Insurance More Affordable by Strengthening Rate Review Laws

For far too many families and small business owners in the United States, the cost of health insurance, driven by health care prices, is already too high — and prices keep rising. Fortunately, state...

Medicaid Redeterminations Are Here: States Still Have Options to Pave the Way Toward Greater Government Efficiency

On April 1, 2023, states began to redetermine tens of millions of people’s eligibility for health care benefits through Medicaid for the first time in three years — and millions of people are like...

Protecting Access to Essential Reproductive Health Services Post-Dobbs

The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has dramatically shifted the reproductive health landscape in states, severely limiting access to abortion care and other reproductive health services for millions o...

Data Shows Fewer People Facing Barriers to Care as Insurance Coverage Reaches Historic Highs — Congress Must Act to Protect Millions of Americans From Losing Coverage

Over the past three years, policy changes in Medicaid and expanded subsidies in the health insurance marketplace have led to dramatic expansions in health coverage and the lowest-ever uninsured rate. ...

The Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States Got Worse During the Pandemic: Congress Must Act to Save Mothers’ Lives

Medicaid plays an essential role in maternal health, paying for almost half of all births. Federal law requires states to cover pregnancy, labor, and delivery care for low-income women through Medicai...