2022
Health Justice Now Webinar Series Part 1: Advancing Equity In 2022: Administrative Priorities And What’s Next On The Legislative Landscape
This is part 1 of the Health Justice Now series. After one year in office, the Biden administration’s progress towards advancing meaningful equity reforms includes a push for COVID-19 vaccination...
View MoreConsumers First Recommendations to the Healthy Futures Task Force
Members of the Consumers First steering committee sent the attached letter in response to a series of requests for information by the Healthy Futures Task Force, which is a House of Representatives ta...
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Hospital Consolidation – How Hospitals’ Machinations Affect Real People
Stories about hospital mergers are filling newspaper front pages across the country. But what does this consolidation of power mean for people who show up at the ER in the scariest moment of their lif...
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Medicaid Programs Should Protect Health Care for Millions of Families by Implementing a New Federal Option for SNAP-Based Electronic Renewal
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released guidance that gives states a powerful new tool that will prevent millions of people from losing Medicaid. The tool will also he...
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Community Voices: Recommendations to State Policymakers for Advancing Health Equity
As policymakers across the U.S. move to address health inequities, community-based voices should be central in setting the policy agenda. To that end, Families USA interviewed leaders from 50 state- a...
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Changing the world around you- Getting your community covered with Kevin Han
Kevin Han is the Strategic Partnerships Associate at Families USA, where he strengthens Families USA’s relationships with partner organizations. Before joining Families USA, he worked as a health na...
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The Affordable Care Act’s Promise of Affordable Health Coverage for Families Across America Is at Risk as Pandemic-Era Policies Expire
On the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have reached the lowest uninsured rate our country has ever had - 8.9%. This report celebrates the coverage gains obtained since the enactm...
View MoreFamilies USA Finance Hearing Statement for the Record
Families USA submitted the statement for the record in support of the recent hearing addressing the high cost of prescription drugs.
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Advancing Equity in 2022: Federal Policy Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Health System Transformation
Our nation must heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color and exposed painful but persistent truths about structural inequities in access to...
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No one knows a community better than those who live there: Leaders who stepped up when their neighbors needed them most
Who can believe it has been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down what we all once knew as everyday life in this country? COVID-19 created a whirlwind of uncertainty, filled with unfortunate...
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