2024

Families Need Relief from Runaway Prescription Drug Costs: State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards Can Help
Updated April 2026 States play a critical role in reining in prescription drug costs for individuals and families across the country. Enacting legislation that creates a prescription drug affordabili...
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National Patient Safety Board: A Step towards Safer, High-Quality Health Care
When you go to the doctor or to the hospital, you expect to feel safe. You expect to be in the best possible place to heal what is ailing you. But if you pull back the privacy curtain, the reality is ...
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One Year into Medicaid Unwinding: Where Do We Go Now?
Of the 19 million Medicaid enrollees who have had their coverage terminated since March of 2023, nearly 70% were due to procedural reasons, rather than ineligibility, and some were caught in the expen...
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The Untold Toll of Medicaid Unwinding
With the end of COVID-19 public health emergency-induced flexibilities, nearly 20 million people have lost Medicaid health insurance coverage. Some of these losses were due to those who were found to ...
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Consumer, Provider, and Advocacy Groups Sign-On to Support HHS Reforms to the Medicare Advantage Program
Joined by 47 organizations representing our nation’s families, providers, and individuals with Medicare coverage, Families USA has submitted a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (...
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Families USA Submits Comments on the House Education and the Workforce’s RFI on Increasing the Affordability and Quality of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Families USA submitted comments for the House Education and the Workforce's Request for Information (RFI) on ERISA's 50th Anniversary: Reforms to Increase Affordability and Quality in Employer-Sponsor...
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First Do No Harm: Addressing the Patient Safety Crisis
Medical errors account for 251,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and the error rate in the U.S. is higher than in other countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and the UK. 1 in 4 experienc...
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A Father’s Reflection: Aftershock and the Urgency of Black Maternal Health
As a married Black father, the world that my wife and I have built together revolves around the joy and responsibility of raising our two young kids, Olivia Joy, and Caleb. Together, we navigate raisi...
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Oral Health Care’s Equity Conundrum — Essential for All, Out of Reach for Many
Oral health is key to everyone’s overall health and wellness, employment opportunities, economic stability, and social connectedness. But for far too many people, affordable and high-quality dental ...
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Extremists Continue Their Assault on Individual Freedoms and Government Policymaking
On March 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether mifepristone, one of the safest drugs on the market, will remain available for all Americans to take when and where they need it, inc...
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