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Today, Families USA submitted a statement for the record to the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing “Examining Legislative Proposals to Reform Medicare Provider Payment and Bolster Health Care Cybersecurity." We believe that every…
Families USA, on behalf of Consumers First and joined by 28 organizations, provided comments on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2027 proposed rule. Consumers First offers these comments both to strengthen Medicare…
Families USA joined an amicus brief in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s harmful “marketplace integrity rule” from going into effect. The case, City of Columbus et al v. Kennedy et al, challenges…
On Tuesday, September 15, Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, testifies before the House Committee on Oversight's Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services at its hearing, "Unequal Treatment: Addressing the Drivers of…
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new restrictions on states’ ability to generate revenue to support state Medicaid programs by limiting the amount states are able to raise from health care-related…
Today, Families USA was joined by 66 organizations representing patients, consumers, employers, and workers in urging Congress to fix a critical flaw in the No Surprises Act's arbitration process. Despite the law successfully preventing…
The No Surprises Act (NSA) represented a landmark bipartisan effort to protect patients from receiving surprise medical bills when it was passed in 2020, preventing an estimated 50 million surprise bills from reaching consumers…
The No Surprises Act has prevented an estimated 50 million surprise medical bills as of September 2026, but the law's reliance on a gameable independent dispute resolution (IDR) process for setting out-of-network payments has…
On Monday, the White House announced its latest round of “most-favored-nation" (MFN) drug pricing deals with nine more companies. The administration is touting these agreements as proof that drug prices are coming down — however,…
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, referred to at the time as “welfare reform.” This misguided and deeply harmful legislation redefined who…