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Using Hospital Community Benefits to Improve Access to Oral Health Care

As part of their tax obligation to provide benefits to the community beyond hospital care, nonprofit hospitals can fund oral health initiatives such as community dental clinics, mobile dental services...

Engaging in Story-Based Work: What Oral Health Organizations Need to Know

This issue brief outlines what organizations that interact with individuals with oral health needs should know before engaging in any story-based work. A companion publication to our Story Bank Too...

An Oral Health Benefit in Medicare Part B: It’s Time to Include Oral Health in Health Care

59 million seniors and people with disabilities rely on Medicare for their health care, but it doesn’t cover part of the body that causes all kinds of health problems—the mouth. Fa...

Health Care Victories in the 2018 State Legislative Sessions

While congressional health care legislation stalled and federal actions undermined provisions of the Affordable Care Act, state policymakers stepped up to address a range of issues affecting health ca...

Risking Access to Needed Medicines for Medicaid Beneficiaries Will Not Fix High Drug Prices

Lowering the price of prescription drugs remains one of the top health care priorities for consumers.1 But pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to increase prices on lifesaving medications.2 A rece...

2018 State Legislation on High and Rising Drug Prices

2018 has been a year of opportunity when it comes to state legislation to address the high and rising prices of prescription drugs. Families USA has identified some of the 2018 state legislative sessi...

Medicare’s Drug Benefit: With Regulatory Action Off the Table, All Eyes Are on Capitol Hill

On May 16th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a final regulation for Medicare’s Part D drug benefit for 2020. The regulation backed off of a proposal that would have crea...

Representative Doggett’s Medicare Negotiation Proposal to Meaningfully Lower Drug Prices

High and rising drug prices jeopardize consumers’ health and well-being.1 To address the harms of high drug prices, families across America want and deserve meaningful reforms that target and reduc...

Community Health Workers: Key Partners in Improving Children’s Health and Eliminating Inequities

Community Health Workers are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of, and deeply rooted in, the communities they serve. Increasingly, CHWs are recognized as playing a unique and inv...

The Public Charge Rule: What it Means and What You Can Do to Stop It

On October 10, 2018, the Trump administration published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would make it much harder for immigrants to obtain visas (including visas to study or work in the U...