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Insights Column
12.18.2017
Today, Families USA and 125 community, provider, labor, and patient organizations sent a letter urging Congress to take immediate action to address the post-hurricane health crises in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and ensure…
Insights Column
01.23.2018
This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill In early January, the Trump administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) directed states to deny adults Medicaid coverage if they cannot document employment. In spite of…
Insights Column
01.27.2018
On January 31, Families USA staff held a webinar about how state advocates can address Medicaid waiver proposals that include work requirements and other restrictions. View webinar. Our experts reviewed recent HHS approvals of…
Insights Column
03.27.2018
This blog is part of an ongoing series of stories from people across the country who need comprehensive dental coverage, but do not have access to it. Families USA, in partnership with the DentaQuest…
Insights Column
05.23.2018
Michigan lawmakers are debating a bill that jeopardizes the Medicaid coverage on which hundreds of thousands of low-income residents rely. While supporters claim the bill will protect people from losing coverage if they take care of…
Insights Column
06.06.2018
Kentucky’s successful Medicaid expansion is in jeopardy. The Trump administration approved the state’s request to impose work requirements on people who get health coverage through Medicaid which would lead to people being kicked off…
Insights Column
06.07.2018
Today, the Michigan legislature passed a bill that imposes new work and premium requirements on its huge Medicaid expansion population. Families USA and other organizations have written extensively about how work requirements don't belong…
Insights Column
06.12.2018
Budget Proposal Would Allow States To Drop Medicaid Transportation Benefits Across The Entire Program Without Precedent The need for transportation among Medicaid enrollees is so widespread that ending Medicaid’s broad “assurance of transportation” would…
Slideshow
04.16.2018
The Trump administration wants to expand the sale of “short-term limited duration plans” that do not have to comply with the consumer protections afforded under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On April 26, 2018, Families USA…
Video
09.01.2012
More than 50 million Americans go without health insurance because they can’t afford the high monthly premiums. This video tells the story of Regina, who lost her husband to stage-four kidney cancer because her…