2024

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: Congress should expand the IRA to protect more people

The rising cost of prescription drugs affects millions of Americans, with nearly 30% of adults forced to ration or skip their medications due to costs. These high drug prices not only force families t...

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 (...

Families USA Submits Comments on the House Education and the Workforce’s RFI on Increasing the Affordability and Quality of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage

Families USA submitted comments for the House Education and the Workforce's Request for Information (RFI) on ERISA's 50th Anniversary: Reforms to Increase Affordability and Quality in Employer-Sponsor...

First Do No Harm: Addressing the Patient Safety Crisis

Medical errors account for 251,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and the error rate in the U.S. is higher than in other countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the UK. 1 in 4 experienc...

A Father’s Reflection: Aftershock and the Urgency of Black Maternal Health

As a married Black father, the world that my wife and I have built together revolves around the joy and responsibility of raising our two young kids, Olivia Joy, and Caleb. Together, we navigate raisi...