2025
Secretary Kennedy’s Broken Promises and the Impact on Americans’ Health
On Thursday, September 4, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee following weeks of increasing uncertainty and upheaval at our na...
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Families USA Submits Comment Letter Pushing Back Against the Trump Administration’s Notice that Unjustly Attacks Immigrants’ Rights to Critical Health Services
Families USA provided a comment letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notice issued last month that reinterprets the definition of “Federal Public Benefit” in the Personal ...
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Priorities in 2026 MPFS and OPPS Proposed Rules
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXrgWNM-vGg[/embed] In July, the Trump Administration proposed major changes to how Medicare pays for hospital care and physician services in the Ou...
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Planned Parenthood: Still Essential, Still Under Threat
Planned Parenthood provides vital health care services to nearly 2.1 million people across the country. Like independent abortion care providers that are also essential and also remain under threat ma...
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Families USA and 200 Organizations Send Letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy Urging Him to Protect the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
On the heels of widespread news reports indicating that Secretary Kennedy is considering removing the current United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) members en masse, Families USA, alon...
View MoreFamilies USA Submits Comments On South Carolina’s Proposed Medicaid 1115 Demonstration Waiver
Families USA strongly urges CMS to reject South Carolina’s proposed 1115 Demonstration wavier, Palmetto Pathways to Independence, citing its failure to advance the statutory objectives of the Medica...
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Families USA Submits Comments on Maine’s Whole Person Care Waiver
Families USA strongly urges CMS to approve Maine’s Whole Person Care waiver in full, citing it as cost-effective and beneficial for vulnerable MaineCare enrollees. Four programs in particular will p...
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August of Accountability: Republicans’ Actions in July Are Causing Insurance Rates to Skyrocket
As Insurers Release Their Proposed Rates in All 50 States, Consumers to Face Shocking Premium Hikes The Republican health care cuts signed into law by President Trump this summer will have devastat...
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Consumers First Statement For The Record For Senate HELP Committee Hearing on Affordability
Families USA, on behalf of the Consumers First alliance, submitted this statement for the record for the July 31 Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, "Making Health...
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What’s Next for CMMI? Promise and Peril in the Latest Strategic Direction
Since its establishment, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has worked to transform U.S. health care payment and delivery by testing models that shift away from paying for ineffici...
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