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Community health workers (CHWs) have a proven track record of improving health and reducing disparities, but a lack of sustainable funding prevents their more widespread integration into the health care system. One way to…
Families USA, Mental Health America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the National Council for Behavioral Health are four nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that represent health care consumers, including those with mental health and…
On June 19, 2018, the Trump administration released a final regulation that will increase the sale of junk insurance in the form of Association Health Plans (AHPs). This new and dangerous step in the administration’s ongoing…
UPDATE: President Trump signed an executive order which would end the practice of separating minor children from their parents at the border. Families USA is analyzing the impact of the executive order, but continues to call on…
On June 12, Families USA held a webinar that highlighted successful tactics and strategies that could be used in states seeking work requirements. Advocates in Colorado and Minnesota discuss how they successfully stopped work requirements…
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…
Medicaid managed care contracting is a promising pathway for securing more sustainable funding for community health workers (CHWs). This issue brief provides examples of contract language that can be used to incentivize or require Medicaid managed…
Medicaid Waivers in Legal and Policy Context; Families USA and Kentucky Voices for Health Explain Lockouts, Work Requirements, and Other Illegal Attempts to Hurt Vulnerable Families Washington, D.C.—On Monday, June 11 Families USA and Kentucky Voices…
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…
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…