Telebriefing

Health Care at a Crossroads: Trends for 2021

Health care is now at a crossroads – with COVID-19, calls for greater equity and unity after a year of reckoning, and a new administration in the White House. The opportunities and expectations for ...

Rx Drugs Roundtable: Costs, Access, and Affordability

Scores of families across the nation routinely make hard choices between paying for their life-saving medications and necessities such as food, gas, and utilities. Following a tumultuous year of histo...

Telebriefing: Without Federal Support for Health Insurance, Many More Jobs Will Be Lost

This media telebriefing discussed Families USA's new report, Without Federal Support for Health Insurance, Job Losses will Become Significantly Worse, which explores the impact of COVID-19-related ins...

Telebriefing: COVID19: Policies To Protect Families

The United States is facing its greatest health and economic emergency in more than a century. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has devastated families across the nation. In order to curtail the damage...

Telebriefing: Health Care on the Chopping Block for Millions of Families

On December 18, 2019, the U.S Court of Appeals decided to send the health care repeal lawsuit back to the district court—putting health care for millions of families in serious jeopardy. The decis...

Telebriefing: Upcoming Oral Arguments on Work Requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky

On March 14, 2019, federal judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments on the legality of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky....

Media Telebriefing: Health Problems of Working Class Women

The new Families USA report A Case for Solidarity: Common Challenges Involving Health and Health Care in the United States reveals that, among both whites and people of color, in rural and urban are...

Media Telebriefing: What’s at Stake for Medicaid in 2018 Elections

Washington, D.C.—On Tuesday, September 18, Families USA held a press telebriefing to discuss what’s at stake for Medicaid in the upcoming November elections. The call included leaders of Medicaid...

Medicaid Waivers in Legal and Policy Context; Families USA and Kentucky Voices for Health Explain

Medicaid Waivers in Legal and Policy Context; Families USA and Kentucky Voices for Health Explain Lockouts, Work Requirements, and Other Illegal Attempts to Hurt Vulnerable Families Washington, D.C....

Media Informational Teleconference Series – GOP Health Care Plan Impact on Older Adults

This media teleconference, hosted by Community Catalyst on Thursday, March 23, 2017, discusses how ACA repeal attempts, including the Republican-led House bill, would cause millions of people in Ameri...