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Medicaid: A Lifeline for Americans with Serious Health Care Needs

Medicaid helps people with serious health care conditions get the care they need. For people with cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease, or heart disease, consistent and reliable access to health car...

How States Can Fund Community Health Workers through Medicaid to Improve People’s Health, Decrease Costs, and Reduce Disparities

Community health workers (CHWs) provide many different services, from helping people buy health insurance and navigating the health care system to leading community-level health education classes. CHW...

Amendments to House GOP Repeal Bill Only Leave Consumers Worse Off

Late last night the House GOP released a new version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) – just two days before the full House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the repeal bill. As now w...

The MacArthur Amendment to Republicans’ Health Care Bill Will Hurt Millions

Republican congressional leaders are not giving up on repealing the Affordable Care Act. They now are pushing a modified version of its previously failed repeal bill, the American Health Care Act, wit...

Blueprint for Health Care Advocacy: How Community Health Workers Are Driving Health Equity and Value in New Mexico

Across the health care system, there is tremendous interest and momentum in reforming the way health care is delivered and paid for in order to improve health care quality and outcomes and at the same...

A Framework for Advancing Health Equity and Health Care Value: Policy Options For Reducing Health Inequities by Transforming Healthcare Delivery and Payment Systems

Families USA created the Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation to bring together state and national health equity thought leaders to catalyze much-needed action to leverag...

How States Can Use Medicaid Managed Care Contracts to Support Community Health Workers

Medicaid managed care contracting is a promising pathway for securing more sustainable funding for community health workers (CHWs). This issue brief provides examples of contract language that can b...

Call to Action for Health Equity Leaders

Our nation’s health care system is rapidly transforming, and the health of people of color and other disadvantaged communities hangs in the balance. Moving to a value-based health care system presen...

The Trump Administration’s Continued Attacks on Immigrant Children and Families: Dismantling the Flores Settlement Agreement

On September 7, the Trump administration took another step toward eliminating basic protections for immigrant children and their families who enter the U.S. without documentation—including those leg...

Financial Support for Safety Net and Small Community Providers to Participate in Delivery System Reform: Medicaid-Based Options for States.

As efforts continue to remedy the failures of our health care system by changing how providers are paid and care delivery is organized, it is imperative that achieving health equity be included in the...