2025

State Policy Options to Address Health Care Consolidation and Lower Hospital Prices

Across the country, high health care costs are threatening the financial wellbeing of families, business, and state and local governments. High prices driven by unchecked health care consolidation hav...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Senate Finance Committee Rising Cost of Health Care Hearing

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the November 19 Senate Finance Committee hearing, “The Rising Cost of Health Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions for all Americans." In...

Republicans’ Harmful Budget Cuts and Attacks Are Undermining Immigrants’ Health Care

Immigrant Communities Receive the First of Many Blows as States Tackle Federal Funding Cuts As states grapple with implementing the health care funding cuts passed in HR1, many immigrants are losing ...

Why Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Skyrocket

Across the country, people are experiencing sticker shock when they open their annual insurance rate notices and discover their 2026 premium increases. People with employer-sponsored health coverage a...

Getting Ready for Open Enrollment

In the wake of the Republican health care cuts and the Trump administration’s changes to ACA marketplace rules, and in the midst of a government shutdown due in part to Congress’s lack of action t...

Big Drug Company Tactics Undermine Drug Pricing Reforms: The Case Against Orphan Drug Exemptions

To address ever-increasing prescription drug costs, federal and state policymakers have instituted reforms ranging from Medicare price negotiations to state Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDA...

America’s Voters: We Demand Lower Healthcare Costs

The Families USA poll conducted by Hart Research Associates shows that lowering health care costs is the top priority for American voters across party lines, even surpassing housing, jobs, crime, and ...

Families USA Submits Comments On Montana Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership (HELP) Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver

Families USA has submitted comments on Montana’s proposed Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Project, the Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership (HELP) Demonstration Program (“HELP Demonstrat...

Smoke and Mirrors vs. Policy and Meaningful Change: What’s Real and What’s Political Theater in the Fight for Lower Prescription Drug Prices

For too long, Americans have struggled to pay the price of medications they need, with politicians on both sides of the aisle promising action. In Washington, D.C. and in states across the country, ne...

Risk Adjustment 101: Protecting Access to High-Quality Health Care

Risk adjustment is a critical mechanism that works to ensure value-based care payments account for the differences in patients’ health care costs and underlying health care needs. Using certain pa...