2024

Families USA Statement for the Record for Judiciary Drug Price Hearing

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the Judiciary's hearing "Ensuring Affordable & Accessible Medications: Examining Competition in the Prescription Drug Market."...

Families USA Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Oral Health Hearing Statement for the Record

This statement for the record was submitted on behalf of Families USA for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Hearing titled "Examining the Dental Care Crisis in America: How Can We Make...

What’s Next in Maternal Health? Transforming Medicaid to Combat the Maternal Health Crisis

This new issue brief from Families USA uplifts the need to reimagine Medicaid maternal health coverage in order to help address the needs of expecting mothers and work towards solving the maternal hea...

The Picture of Health: A Pro-Consumer Blueprint for Health Care Payment and Delivery Reform

Five national organizations — Families USA, National Partnership for Women and Families, American Heart Association, National Consumers League, and Third Way — have joined forces to develop a cons...

Navigating America’s Health Care Woes: A Call for True Payment Reform

Let's talk about the current troubles people run into when receiving health care in the U.S. The hassle of making an appointment, switching doctors, getting piles of bills, and managing individual spe...

Families Need Relief from Runaway Prescription Drug Costs: State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards Can Help

States play a critical role in reining in prescription drug costs for individuals and families across the country. Enacting legislation that creates a prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) with...

National Patient Safety Board: A Step towards Safer, High-Quality Health Care

When you go to the doctor or to the hospital, you expect to feel safe. You expect to be in the best possible place to heal what is ailing you. But if you pull back the privacy curtain, the reality is ...

The Untold Toll of Medicaid Unwinding

With the end of COVID-19 public health emergency-induced flexibilities, nearly 20 million people have lost Medicaid health insurance coverage. Some of these losses were due to those who were found to ...

One Year into Medicaid Unwinding: Where Do We Go Now?

Of the 19 million Medicaid enrollees who have had their coverage terminated since March of 2023, nearly 70% were due to procedural reasons, rather than ineligibility, and some were caught in the expen...

Consumer, Provider, and Advocacy Groups Sign-On to Support HHS Reforms to the Medicare Advantage Program

Joined by 47 organizations representing our nation’s families, providers, and individuals with Medicare coverage, Families USA has submitted a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (...