Affordability and Value

Families USA Statement for the Record for the Senate HELP’s Committee Hearing on Making Health Care Affordable Again

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the December 3 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing, “Making Health Care Affordable Again: Healing a Broken System...

State Policy Options to Address Health Care Consolidation and Lower Hospital Prices

Across the country, high health care costs are threatening the financial wellbeing of families, business, and state and local governments. High prices driven by unchecked health care consolidation hav...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Senate Finance Committee Rising Cost of Health Care Hearing

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the November 19 Senate Finance Committee hearing, “The Rising Cost of Health Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions for all Americans." In...

Why Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Skyrocket

Across the country, people are experiencing sticker shock when they open their annual insurance rate notices and discover their 2026 premium increases. People with employer-sponsored health coverage a...

Smoke and Mirrors vs. Policy and Meaningful Change: What’s Real and What’s Political Theater in the Fight for Lower Prescription Drug Prices

For too long, Americans have struggled to pay the price of medications they need, with politicians on both sides of the aisle promising action. In Washington, D.C. and in states across the country, ne...

Risk Adjustment 101: Protecting Access to High-Quality Health Care

Risk adjustment is a critical mechanism that works to ensure value-based care payments account for the differences in patients’ health care costs and underlying health care needs. Using certain pa...

What the Government Shutdown Debate is Really About: Health Care Tax Credits for Working Class Americans

Vice President JD Vance outright lied when he posted on X and said on Fox News that the government shutdown is over demands for illegal immigrants to get health care. No such demands exist. The issue ...

Families USA Joins Amicus Briefs to Stop the Trump Administration’s Harmful Marketplace Integrity Rule

Families USA joined amicus briefs in two lawsuits to stop the Trump administration's harmful "marketplace integrity rule" from going into effect. The cases, City of Columbus et al v. Kennedy et al and...

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...