2025

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 costs as the top ...

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 Inadm...

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 an...

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 ...

What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026

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 enroll in marketplace coverage for t...

Defend Progress. Extend Coverage. Empower Consumers. Protecting CGM Access at the State-Level

While significant progress has been made at the state level to expand coverage, recent cuts to Medicaid under H.R. 1, “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” have put immense pressure on state Medicaid pr...

Written Testimony of Sophia Tripoli for New Jersey Senate Committee Hearing

On December 8, 2025, Sophia Tripoli submitted written testimony to the New Jersey Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens in support of A5376/S4299. S4299 will help slow decades...

Written Testimony of Anthony Wright for Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Hearing

On December 11, 2025, Families USA Executive Director Anthony Wright testified before the Senate HELP Committee in a hearing, “Examining the Future of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation ...

Written Testimony of Sophia Tripoli for House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing

On December 10, 2025, Families USA Senior Director for Health Policy Sophia Tripoli testified before the House Oversight Subcommittees on Health Care and Financial Services and Economic Growth, Energy...

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 skyrocke...