2025

Vulnerable, Working Class Americans will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire

Millions of people benefit from premium tax credits that help them buy and afford health coverage on healthcare.gov or on state-based marketplaces. In light of rising health care costs and the huge im...

The Biggest Threats to Maternal Health Lurking in President Trump’s Health Care Cuts

Republican health care cuts exceeding $1 trillion threaten to destabilize maternal health, posing significant risks to postpartum coverage and reproductive health care, support systems on which millio...

Consumers First Submits Comments On MPFS CY 2026

Families USA, on behalf of Consumers First and joined by 14 organizations provided comments on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2026 proposed rule. Consumers First offers t...

Consumers First Submits Comments On OPPS CY 2026

Families USA, on behalf of Consumers First and joined by 16 organizations provided comments on the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule for calendar year 20...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Families 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...