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2025

A Trillion Dollar Cut to Care: The Fight for Medicare and Medicaid

Commemorating 60 Years of Vital Programs — A Legacy in Jeopardy For 60 years, Medicare and Medicaid have been defining features of the health care landscape, serving as a vital lifeline by providin...

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Consumers First 2025 Administrative Agenda: Regulatory Policy Solutions to Drive Value  Into the U.S. Health Care System

America’s families, workers, employers and clinicians are caught in a severe health care affordability and quality crisis. While policymakers have taken steps in recent years to begin to lower healt...

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Timeline of Trump’s New Health Care Law: What You Need to Know

Earlier this month, Republicans in Congress passed, and President Trump signed, their “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes the largest health care cuts in history: more than $1 trillion over 1...

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Federal Budget Reconciliation Law Implementation Timeline for Key Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace Provisions

Families USA published a comprehensive timeline of when different provisions of the Republican health care law that will impact Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA enrollees take effect. This implementation p...

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Families USA Statement for the Record for Ways and Means Health and Oversight Subcommittee Hearing On Medicare Advantage

Families USA submitted a statement to the Ways and Means Health and Oversight Subcommittees thanking committee members for holding a timely hearing and stressing the importance of reform in the Medica...

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Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”

Earlier this month, President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law. Now, families brace...

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Families USA Submits Comments On Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations — Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole Proposed Rule

CMS proposes a major policy change to its existing waiver process concerning health care-related taxes — important funding mechanisms that help states finance their share of Medicaid costs. Families...

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Families USA Submits Comments On the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan 1115 Demonstration Amendment

Families USA urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to delay decision making on the proposed IHAWP amendment, to provide time after the passage of the new federal law to do the pro...

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Actions by Trump and Congress are Leading to Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums in 2026

President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress just passed the big budget bill which included the biggest cut to our health care system in history — $1 trillion — and put into law several d...

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Marketplace Final Rule Sets Major Hurdles to Coverage

The Trump administration finalized a dangerous rule that will make it much harder for people to enroll in ACA marketplace plans and will raise the price of ACA coverage. HHS estimates that over 1.8 mi...

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