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Tennessee’s Medicaid Block Grant Proposal Will Hurt Families

This week, Tennessee released a proposal to block grant its Medicaid program based on legislation passed by state lawmakers this past spring. The proposal, entitled Amendment 42, is a radical restruct...

Health Coverage Matters for Children: The Role of Medicaid in the Healthy Development of America’s Children

Access to health care is crucial to children’s health and development. When children have health insurance, they are more likely to get the health care they need. For more than 40 percent of childre...

Medicaid Stakeholder Comments on Proposed Access Rule

On September 13, Families USA was joined by twenty other national Medicaid stakeholder organizations in a comment letter to the administration on their proposal to rescind the Obama era regulation to ...

Comments on Pending Utah Per Capita Cap 1115 Demonstration

Families USA submitted the attached comments on Utah's request to receive an enhanced 90-10 federal match for its partial expansion of Medicaid for adults up to 100 percent of the federal poverty leve...

Affordable Health Insurance Lightens This Bodybuilder’s Burdens

A weight is lifted for Sudan, a bodybuilder, thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace insurance. Sudan works as a personal trainer for members of the military and their families at an ...

How to Counter Trump Administration Cuts to Marketplace Enrollment Funding

Yesterday, the Trump administration announced drastic funding cuts for outreach and enrollment. This deliberate effort to sabotage the health care law follows previous efforts to reduce marketpla...

Private Insurance Advocacy Checklist: Getting to Know Your State’s Health Insurance Landscape

This checklist is designed to help advocates and consumers understand who makes decisions about private insurance in their states. It explains how private health insurance is regulate...

King v. Burwell: An analogy

On March 4, 2015, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on King v. Burwell, a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate financial assistance (the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax subsidies that help low- to ...

Consumer Videos: Health Care At Risk

On March 4, 2015, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on King v. Burwell, a legal case that threatens to strip premium tax credits from residents in two-thirds of states, thus putting 9.3 million ...

King v. Burwell Consumer Profiles Part 1: Health Care At Risk (slideshow)

On March 4, 2015 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on King v. Burwell, a legal case that threatens to strip premium tax credits from residents in two-thirds of states, thus putting 9.3 milli...