2023
Health Equity Task Force: 2023 Federal Priorities
The Families USA Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Reform (Health Equity Task Force) brings together the leading organizations on the federal and state level working to ensure that eff...
View More115 House Representatives Urge CMS to Improve Medicare’s “Medically Necessary” Dental Coverage
In this letter, 115 members of the House of Representatives are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use its existing authority to further improve coverage of medically neces...
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From Amarillo, Texas to Your Medicine Cabinet – Extremist Judges Are Paving the Way for Religious Ideology not Science to Determine Your Family’s Access to Prescription Medications
In the last three weeks, ideological judges – from Texas all the way up to the Supreme Court --have been weighing in on a consequential decision by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in All...
View MoreConsumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Legislative Hearing
Consumers First, the alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives a...
View MoreHUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Comment Letter
Families USA has submitted a comment letter responding to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) r...
View MoreNearly 230 Organizations Tell Congress: No Cuts To Medicaid
Families USA, alongside almost 230 national and state partner organizations, submitted a letter to Congressional Leadership in support of the critically important Medicaid program and to express our u...
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The Power of Price Transparency: Unveiling Health Care Prices to Promote Accountability and Lower Costs
Every person should have the right to know what a health care procedure costs at different hospitals or health care facilities, whether it is an X-ray, an MRI, or a surgery, yet that is not how it wor...
View MoreHealth Consequences of a Mifepristone Ban Infographic
As courts weigh extremist attacks on mifepristone, one of the safest drugs on the market, it is important to consider the dire consequences that allowing judicial interference in the FDA gold-standard...
View MoreFamilies USA Comments to CMS Medicare Drug Negotiation Guidance
On March 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance on how they will implement the Medicare drug negotiation process, including how they will develop the “Maximum Fai...
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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...
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