Deadline Day: Enroll in 2026 Health Coverage Today
Open enrollment for marketplace coverage closes in most of the country today. If you have not yet enrolled in coverage for 2026 or were auto-enrolled in a plan, here are some tips: Go to… Read more.
What Americans Really Want for the Holidays This Year
Lowering the cost of health care is at the top of nearly every American’s wish list this year. In polls and at the ballot box, voters of all ideologies have singled out health care… Read more.
12.23.2025 / / Insights Blog
Health Access on The Line: How Trump’s Proposed Public Charge Rule Hurts All of Us and Weakens Our Health Care System
Last week, Families USA submitted a comment on a proposed rule from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) titled Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility. This proposed rule… Read more.
12.22.2025 / / Insights Blog
Federal Officials Have Spoken, and Now it’s the States’ Turn: “Lookback Period” for Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements
The Republican budget bill passed in July 2025 included massive cuts to health care and an upheaval of Medicaid eligibility requirements that will make it harder for millions of Americans to get on and… Read more.
12.19.2025 / / Insights Blog
State Action Needed to Maintain Access to Reproductive Health: What Advocates Can Do
In the wake of the devastating Republican health care cuts, including sweeping reductions to Medicaid and the ACA, millions of Americans are being forced to grapple with the fallout. Patients seeking reproductive health care,… Read more.
12.16.2025 / / Insights Blog
What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026
Last Updated on TODAY, December 15, is the deadline to enroll in a health care plan to guarantee you are covered on January 1, 2026. It also signals that only one month remains to… Read more.
12.15.2025 / / Insights Blog
Congress Must Extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits and Lower Health Care Costs Now
There are just a few weeks left for Congress to act and extend the enhanced premium tax credits that lower health care costs for millions of Americans. If Congress does nothing, premiums will skyrocket… Read more.
12.09.2025 / / Insights Blog
Unprecedented Changes by a Little-Known Committee That Controls Our Vaccine Access
This week, a little-known federal committee is meeting to make decisions that could fundamentally change our access to lifesaving vaccines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has protected American health for decades under… Read more.
12.04.2025 / / Insights Blog
Trump Administration Shuts Down Public Input, Undermining Transparency, Health Equity and Good Policy
HHS Must Reinstate the Richardson Waiver, A Critical Tool for Equitable and Transparent Health Policy Earlier this year, the Trump Administration rescinded the “Richardson waiver,” ending over 50 years of precedent in seeking public… Read more.
12.02.2025 / / Insights Blog
Republicans’ Harmful Budget Cuts and Attacks Are Undermining Immigrants’ Health Care
Immigrant Communities Receive the First of Many Blows as States Tackle Federal Funding Cuts As states grapple with implementing the health care funding cuts passed in HR1, many immigrants are losing their health coverage,… Read more.
11.17.2025 / / Insights Blog
Getting Ready for Open Enrollment
In the wake of the Republican health care cuts and the Trump administration’s changes to ACA marketplace rules, and in the midst of a government shutdown due in part to Congress’s lack of action… Read more.
10.27.2025 / / Insights Blog
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, new… Read more.
10.20.2025 / / Insights Blog
Sowing Distrust and Dismantling Science: Escalating Threats to Vaccine Access
Vaccines represent some of the greatest public health achievements in history, building on science, expert policy and public trust to strengthen America’s security and protect millions of lives across generations. From the U.S. eradication… Read more.
10.10.2025 / / Insights Blog
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.… Read more.
10.01.2025 / / Insights Blog
Behind the Numbers: The Real Americans who will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire
Across the country, 22 million Americans use health care tax credits to afford their health care coverage. With costs for everything rising, from groceries to rent to health care, without the support of these… Read more.
09.25.2025 / / Insights Blog
Vulnerable, Working Class Americans will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire
Millions of people benefit from premium tax credits that help them buy and afford health coverage on healthcare.gov or on state-based marketplaces. In light of rising health care costs and the huge impact they… Read more.