2025

Medicaid Cuts Would Rip Away Health Coverage from Millions of Americans, Disproportionately Harming People of Color

This report, co-authored by UnidosUS and other leading civil rights and health equity organizations, highlights the devastating impact of Medicaid cuts on communities across the United States, particu...

Over 65 million Women Are Counting on the FDA to Maintain Access to Mifepristone

Access to reproductive care continues to be the focus of consequential decisions made in Washington D.C., including by perhaps unlikely people, like the potential leader of the U.S. Food and Drug Admi...

Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Bureaucratic Burdens That Threaten Working Families, Providers and Local Economies

A new fact sheet details how nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees are at risk of losing their health care coverage under federal work reporting requirements. These proposals come just after House Rep...

Families USA Joins Public Citizen Amicus Brief to Defend Cost-Free Preventive Services

Families USA and other nonprofit organizations filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Robert F Kennedy et al. v Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. The Braidwood case challenges the Afforda...

Families USA Unites Health Advocates, Sets Clear Mission at 30th Annual Health Action Conference

Last month, Families USA was proud to host more than 650 health care consumer advocates, policy analysts, academics, community organizers and more in Washington D.C. for our 30th annual Health Action ...

Lay of the Land: Primary Care, Provider Payments and What’s Next

High-quality primary care is the foundation of an efficient, effective and comprehensive health care system. Primary care serves as the main entry point into health care for families, children, aging ...

Families USA Submits Comments on Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for CY 2026 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies

Families USA submit comments on the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (i.e., the CY 2026 Advance Rate Notice)...

Ensuring Accountability: A New Era in Medicaid Managed Care Oversight

Though managed care is the dominant delivery system for Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) receive almost half of all Medicaid spending ($376 billion) annually, ex...

Consumers First Legislative Agenda 2025: Policy Solutions for the 119th Congress to Drive Value into the U.S. Health Care System

Today, responding to voters clamoring for health care affordability and value, Consumers First, a national alliance representing families, working people, employers, and primary care clinicians, relea...

Families USA Testimony for the New York State Site Neutral Payment Bill

On February 11 Sophia Tripoli, senior director of health policy at Families USA, submitted written testimony to the New York State Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2025 Executive Budget Proposal:...