2023

Working Toward True Health Care Payment Reform to Ensure Our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients

The way the US pays for health care is a major driver of unaffordable, low-quality care and poor health for our nation's families and individuals. Despite a decade of payment reform, volume-based paym...

With Impending Funding Crises, Rural Hospitals Need a Medicaid Expansion Lifeboat to Stay Afloat

Two hundred rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closing, and another 600 rural facilities are at high risk of closing in the future. The end of emergency COVID-19 hospital funding, together with ...

Navigators help open the door to health coverage during open enrollment

You've gotten through the holidays – congratulations! The kids have new toys, the tree is at the curb, and we're in 2023. But that to-do list isn't completely finished. If you want to buy health ins...

Virtual Media Briefing: Ensuring Older Adults Relying on Medicare can Afford Life-Saving Medications

On Wednesday, September 6, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Families USA and Patients for Affordable Drugs Now for a virtual press conference to break down and discuss the future impact and implicat...