2023

Lost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Get Health Insurance

Lost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Get Health Insurance Beginning April 1, 2023, and over the next 12 months, millions of people with Medicaid or CHIP will be renewing their coverage. Some will no...

The Fight for Lower Drug Prices: How to Engage in Inflation Reduction Act Implementation

On April 5 Families USA hosted a webinar providing key information to advocates on how and when they can engage with the Inflation Reduction Act implementation in order to ensure the promise of lower ...

Need for Oral Health Improvements Finally Being Heard in Congress

Oral health is key to overall health and wellness, employment opportunities, economic stability, and social connectedness. Policymakers have the power--- and arguably the responsibility-- to enact pol...

Families USA Comments on the “Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards”

Families USA comments in support of the proposed changes to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards with a few additional recommendations on how to furth...

Families USA Comment on “Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the ACA”

Families USA commented in support of a proposed rule to address coverage of contraceptive services under the Affordable Care Act. Achieving improved health for all requires that birthing people have t...

Protect Families’ Coverage When the Public Health Emergency Ends: A Health Advocate’s Survival Guide to Redeterminations

Millions of people are at risk of losing their health coverage in the coming months. Why? Because the Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration that has guaranteed Medicaid coverage during the worst o...

Families USA Statement for the Record: Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee Hearing on Oral Health

This statement for the record was submitted on behalf of Families USA for the Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee Hearing titled "An Oral Health Crisis: Identifying and Addressing Health Dispariti...

Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee

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...

Sophia Tripoli Testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on “Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care”

In this March 28 testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Sophia Tripoli, Director of Families USA's Center for Affordable Whole-Person Care, discusses the health care affor...

Advocacy Resource: Ensuring the Medicare Drug Negotiation Program Prioritizes Families and Consumers

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) was a critical moment in the effort to achieve lower and more affordable drug costs. Most notably, the IRA finally gave Medicare the authority to negotiate pr...