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With the American Rescue Plan now signed into law, and the 117th Congress and new Administration starting to think through next steps, we want to continue the drumbeat for action on health and health care…
On Thursday, December 17, for Families USA hosted our webinar, United for Health: An Advocate’s Guide to Messaging with Shared Values. In this session, we released our new messaging guide, United for Health, which…
In this webinar, we covered the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) federal rule that weakens Maintenance of Effort (MOE) protections for Medicaid enrollees during the Public Health Emergency. We explored the…
The 2020 elections have major implications on the Medicaid program at both the state and federal levels, and it is time to discuss how advocates can advance our collective Medicaid agenda in 2021. In…
In this webinar, Families USA dives into the election results that are available, how they will impact the health care landscape, and review ways we’ll move forward, together. We will follow up as results…
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed even more deeply the health inequities that impact our communities. These disparities are profoundly influenced by legacies of segregation and disinvestment that fueled inequities in opportunity, health, and well-being…
Even before the pandemic, too many families were struggling to make ends meet and making difficult trade-offs between paying for basic needs and unaffordable medicines. These life-altering trade-offs are exponentially more challenging because of…
For months, headlines have been filled with alarming stories of middle- and low-income families struggling to obtain benefits they have qualified for: unemployment insurance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid, stimulus checks from the Internal…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed health care delivery and the ways patients interact with the health care system. States are making major policy and regulatory changes to expand health systems’ telehealth capabilities to meet…
Public conversations surrounding COVID-19 health outcomes in Black and Latino communities must address the role of structural racism, including how community trauma, neighborhood disinvestment, and environmental toxins can cause or further exacerbate those conditions,…