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Community Advisory Council - Families USA
Feb 29, 2024 - Families USA has launched a Community Advisory Council (C.A.C) with the goal to ensure that community feedback is reflected and prioritized across all of...
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Brand Assets - Families USA
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Darlene W., New York | Families USA
After more than three decades in the classroom, Darlene W. thought she had done everything right. She built a career teaching in a small rural public school in...
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Kathleen Downes, New York | Families USA
Kathleen Downes is 32 years old and lives on Long Island where she works as a social worker and a board-certified patient advocate. Kathleen was born with...
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Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing - Families USA
Jun 20, 2024 - The Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing is a coalition of leading organizations representing families, individuals, and health care consumers across the United...
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https://familiesusa.org/our-work/medicare-oral-health-coalition/
Medicare Oral Health Coalition - Families USA
Mar 27, 2024 - While Medicare was established to provide for the health and well-being of older adults and people with disabilities and reduce medical debt, it leaves out a...
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Medicaid - Families USA
Jul 17, 2025 - Insuring one in every five Americans, Medicaid is the largest single source of health coverage in the United States.
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Jill Snow, Michigan | Families USA
Jill is a single mother raising two teenagers, supporting them on her own without assistance from their father. Her son James is a senior in high school and...
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Health Equity Task Force for Delivery & Payment Transformation - Families USA
Mar 28, 2025 - Working with partners to advance a health equity agenda on health system transformation Families USA is partnering with national and state health equity...
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Danielle Fazio, North Carolina | Families USA
Danielle Fazio is a private mental health trauma therapist based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Since starting her practice just over a year ago, she has...
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Families USA's Campaigns
Feb 2, 2026 - Within this hub you will discover how we're reshaping America's health care landscape and placing patients at the forefront of our mission.
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Surprise Medical Bills - Families USA
May 8, 2023 - Surprise medical bills occur when consumers are charged for out-of-network care that they receive due to no fault of their own. Surprise bills are incredibly...
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Cassenda Nelson, Georgia | Families USA
Cassenda Nelson lives in Camilla, a rural community in southwest Georgia, where health care is limited and resources are hard to come by. She’s a mother of...
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A National Patient Safety Board: What America Needs to Ensure Patient Safety - Families USA
Sep 23, 2024 - Establishing a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) within HHS could improve safety and reduce errors across the health care system.
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About - Families USA
Mar 16, 2026 - The work of Families USA is driven by and centered around four pillars: value, equity, coverage and people’s experience.
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What Is Coverage? - Families USA
Oct 10, 2024 - Quality health coverage ensures that you can afford the care you need in order for you and your family to be, and stay, healthy.
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Home | Families USA
Jan 29, 2026 - At Families USA, our vision is a nation where the best health and health care are equally accessible and affordable to all.
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Affordable Care Act (ACA) - Families USA
Mar 28, 2025 - With its first-ever consumer protections which apply to all private health plans the ACA gives you and your family peace of mind.
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Oral Health for All - Families USA
Nov 7, 2024 - Families USA leads the Oral Health for All Campaign, an intensive, multi-faceted, long-term campaign to expand access to the oral health coverage that we all...
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People First Care - Families USA
Jan 23, 2023 - Every person in the United States should have high-quality, affordable health care that prevents illness, allows them to see a doctor when needed and helps to...
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Copyright and Terms of Use - Families USA
Sep 10, 2019 - Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Our...
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Defending Health Care - Families USA
Mar 28, 2025 - The ACA has faced numerous threats and challenges since 2010, and Families USA has worked to defend health care access for all.
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Home | Families USA
Jan 29, 2026 - At Families USA, our vision is a nation where the best health and health care are equally accessible and affordable to all.
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Dissecting the Deepest Cuts: Medicaid Provider Taxes and New H.R. 1 Restrictions - Families USA
Mar 27, 2026 - The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new restrictions on states’ ability to generate Medicaid provider tax revenue, including by narrowing...
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Families USA Submits Testimony Supporting Illinois Bill to Address High Drug Costs - Families USA
On April 14, 2026, Families USA submitted written testimony to the Illinois Health Care Availability and Accessibility Committee in support of HB1443/SB66....
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Laura G, Missouri | Families USA
For nearly a decade, Laura G., a mom in Missouri, has fought to get her daughter the health care she needs. Her daughter Annie, now nine, was born with a rare...
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Hanna Utkin, California | Families USA
Mar 3, 2026 - When her four-month-old son fell from his highchair, Hanna Utkin rushed to the emergency room for help, only to later receive hundreds of dollars in unexpected...
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Defending Medicaid - Families USA
Mar 27, 2026 - We must work together to stop devastating cuts to a critical health care program, we must defend Medicaid!
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Families USA Careers
Mar 9, 2026 - We offer a warm, collaborative environment full of opportunities to expand your skills and knowledge of health-related policy issues.
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Consumers First - Families USA
Aug 28, 2025 - Consumers First is a new alliance that brings together powerful interests from consumers, children, employers, labor unions, and primary care providers working...
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Privacy Policy - Families USA
Sep 27, 2024 - Families USA has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our Web...
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Health Equity Academy in System Transformation - Families USA
Nov 1, 2024 - Every year, selected fellows representing jurisdictions across the U.S. collaborate with policy advocates and other subject matter experts to develop and...
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What Is People's Experience? - Families USA
Oct 10, 2024 - Giving broad voice to the perspectives of everyday people, and exploring new ways that enable them to engage on health care issues.
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Donate - Families USA
Oct 8, 2019 - Families USA, a leading national, nonpartisan voice for health care consumers, is dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care and...
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Jennifer Taskey, Ohio | Families USA
Jul 21, 2025 - Jennifer Taskey has turned to Medicaid during some of the most challenging moments in her life. Now 41 and living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her three children,...
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https://familiesusa.org/our-work/health-justice-now-webinar-series/
Health Justice Now Webinar Series - Families USA
May 23, 2024 - Webinar Series Overview While affordable health care for all is essential, we can’t forget the broader health justice movement to ensure that no one is left...
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https://familiesusa.org/stories/cameo-sampson-west-virginia/
Cameo Sampson, West Virginia | Families USA
In Beckley, West Virginia, Cameo Sampson and her husband rely on Medicaid to cover the intensive therapies and medical care their 13-year-old daughter Evelyn...
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Health Action Resources - Families USA
Oct 16, 2025 - The Health Action Resources List is an evolving set of materials to support your work in fighting to defend health care for all Americans.
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Child Health and Early Childhood - Families USA
Nov 19, 2024 - Early childhood is a period of rapid brain development, physical growth, and learning — a time of both vulnerability and opportunity. This developmental period...
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Compass Family Services | Support for Homeless Families | San Francisco, CA, USA
Compass Family Services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
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