Since 1982, Families USA has worked to promote high-quality,
affordable health care for all Americans.

President Obama has signed health reform into law. This is a giant step forward, providing help to millions of American families and businesses and building a foundation we can be proud of. Health Reform Central will tell you everything you need to know about this historic law—who will benefit and how, what it will mean for your state, what opponents of reform are doing, and more. Go to Health Reform Central's Roadblocks for up-to-date information on attempts to repeal or nullify the new law.

New Resources from Families USA

Designing a Consumer Health Assistance Program discusses these programs and how health reform will dramatically expand the assistance they provide. It reviews key considerations to keep in mind when designing such programs, including grants and other funding, function, scope, location, staffing, training, and outreach. (August 2010)

A Helping Hand for Small Businesses: Health Insurance Tax Credits analyzes the health reform provision that provides tax credits to small employers to help them buy health coverage for their workers. This report, which was commissioned along with Small Business Majority, provides national and state-level data on the number of small businesses eligible for the credit in 2010, as well as the number eligible for the maximum tax credit. (July 2010)

In this video, "Modern Healthcare" Managing Editor Neil McLaughlin discusses the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with Ron Pollack, who argues that the more patients and providers know about specific aspects of the law, the more favorably they view it. (July 26, 2010) 

How Health Reform Helps Low-Income Children discusses how health reform sustains Medicaid and CHIP funding, enhances enrollment in the programs, further expands children's coverage, and increases their health care benefits. (July 2010)

Covering Pregnant Women: CHIPRA Offers a New Option discusses the new option that states have to provide pregnant women with comprehensive health care during pregnancy and for a limited postpartum period, and a simple administrative way to do so. (July 2010)

Helping People with Medicare discusses how health reform will help make Medicare more affordable for seniors and people with disabilities, improve health care quality for enrollees, and make the program more financially secure. (June 2010)

Streamlining Citizenship Documentation: States Can Make Documenting Citizenship and Identity Easier discusses several important changes that the CHIP Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) made to the citizenship documentation requirement that make it less burdensome for consumers and states. (June 2010)

More Resources

Did you miss our Health Action 2010 Conference? Check out Health Action 2010 Conference Central for the advocates of the year video, photos, webcasts, workshop handouts, and more.

Conference Call Series for State Advocates: Listen to the calls from the 2010 series.

Health Provisions in the Stimulus Package: Click here for details and to see what's good and not-so-good about the new law.

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