2025

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 ...

Families USA Statement for the Record for the Senate HELP’s Committee Hearing on Making Health Care Affordable Again

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the December 3 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing, “Making Health Care Affordable Again: Healing a Broken System...

Families USA and 66 National and State Partners Send Letter of Support to Reinstate the Richardson Waiver

Families USA, along with 66 national and state partner organizations representing health care consumers, patients, workers and clinicians has submitted a letter urging Senate Leadership to support S.J...

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Waiver, A Critical Tool for Equitable and Transparent Health Policy Earlier this year, the Trump Administration rescinded the “Richardson waiver,” ending over 50...

State Policy Options to Address Health Care Consolidation and Lower Hospital Prices

Across the country, high health care costs are threatening the financial wellbeing of families, business, and state and local governments. High prices driven by unchecked health care consolidation hav...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Senate Finance Committee Rising Cost of Health Care Hearing

Families USA submitted this statement for the record for the November 19 Senate Finance Committee hearing, “The Rising Cost of Health Care: Considering Meaningful Solutions for all Americans." In...

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 ...

Why Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Skyrocket

Across the country, people are experiencing sticker shock when they open their annual insurance rate notices and discover their 2026 premium increases. People with employer-sponsored health coverage a...

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 t...

Big Drug Company Tactics Undermine Drug Pricing Reforms: The Case Against Orphan Drug Exemptions

To address ever-increasing prescription drug costs, federal and state policymakers have instituted reforms ranging from Medicare price negotiations to state Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDA...