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Serving a combined 150 million people in the U.S., ranging from seniors to infants and including adults, children, and people with disabilities, Medicare and Medicaid provide crucial access to care, improving health outcomes when…
This new issue brief from Families USA uplifts the need to reimagine Medicaid maternal health coverage in order to help address the needs of expecting mothers and work towards solving the maternal health crisis.…
Families across America are facing a health care affordability crisis, and the egregiously high costs of prescription drugs play a big part. People are forced to ration or skip their lifesaving and sustaining medications…
Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are essential to the U.S. health care system and are responsible for delivering health care services through state Medicaid programs to nearly 60 million Americans. As part of their…
Building a health care system that centers the needs of our mothers and babies requires new policy approaches: The United States is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Women are dying at…
For far too many families and small business owners in the United States, the cost of health insurance, driven by health care prices, is already too high — and prices keep rising. Fortunately, states…
On April 1, 2023, states began to redetermine tens of millions of people’s eligibility for health care benefits through Medicaid for the first time in three years — and millions of people are likely…
The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has dramatically shifted the reproductive health landscape in states, severely limiting access to abortion care and other reproductive health services for millions of women. As a result, health advocates…
Over the past three years, policy changes in Medicaid and expanded subsidies in the health insurance marketplace have led to dramatic expansions in health coverage and the lowest-ever uninsured rate. Roughly 9.3 million people…
Medicaid plays an essential role in maternal health, paying for almost half of all births. Federal law requires states to cover pregnancy, labor, and delivery care for low-income women through Medicaid. But this coverage…