Resource Roundup

Dear Health Advocates,

Now is the time to make sure we are lifting up the importance of Medicaid and access to Mifepristone, particularly as Congressional Republicans and court officials continue to make announcements on both of these issues throughout this week. As a reminder, please see the letters below to sign on and share with your networks. Additional resources, events, and action items are also below:

Action Items

• Sign & Share Organizational Sign On Letter to Congressional Leadership: No Medicaid Cuts. See full letter text and sign on HERE by Tuesday, April 18 at 5pm ET (note extended deadline!) 
• Sign & Share: Individual Petition in Defense of Mifepristone: People's Brief to Protect Mifepristone and Access to Medication 
• Sign & Share Families USA's Petition: Medicaid Should Cover our Whole Bodies: Mouths Included!

Resources For Your Health Advocacy

Protecting Mifepristone 

• Families USA Statement: Mifepristone Decision Blows Apart FDA Scientific Independence, Creates Back Door Abortion Ban Women’s Health, And Access To Prescription Drugs For All Americans, Under Direct Attack
• Families USA Social Media Toolkit: Mife Ban Decision 
• Planned Parenthood Resource: Mifepristone Case Toolkit

Protecting Medicaid Coverage

• NEW! Caring Across Generations Medicaid Defense Toolkit: Response to McCarthy on Medicaid: Talking Points & Digital Toolkit
• NEW! Families USA Brief: Medicaid Redeterminations Are Here: States Still Have Options to Pave the Way Toward Greater Government Efficiency
• NEW! Families USA Factsheet: Lost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Stay Covered
• Families USA Resource: Enrollment Options: New CMS Guidance for Enrolling in ESI After Losing Medicaid
  
• Families USA Webinar Recording: Survival Guide: Preparing For When Redeterminations Get Rough
• Families USA Op-Ed: Beyond Medicare and Social Security: Cutting Medicaid after the pandemic would be political madness
• National Help Law Program Publication: 10 Issues for Advocates to Monitor During the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding
• Families USA Fact Sheet: Not a Moment to Lose: Critical Changes States Should Implement to Prevent Medicaid Coverage Losses
  

Health Care Value 

• NEW! Families USA Webinar Recording: The Fight for Lower Drug Prices: How to Engage in Inflation Reduction Act Implementation

• Families USA Report: Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee
• Families USA Webinar Recording: Health Care Payment Reform: Working to Ensure our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients
• Families USA Report: What It Costs to Have a Baby in America: A State-by-State Analysis 
• Families USA Insights Blog: The No Surprises Act Faces Legal Threats. Here's Why You Should Care

Health Equity 

• Families USA Resource: Comments on the "Initial Proposals for Updating OMB's Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards"
• Families USA and The Black Mamas Matter Alliance Respond to the Senate HELP Committee's Workforce Shortage RFI

Thank you for your tireless advocacy as we continue fighting for the best health and health care for all of America's families. To connect on shared advocacy efforts or let us know what you would like featured in upcoming Resource Roundups, please respond to this email or reach out to any of us at Families USA! 

Have a great week,

Melissa Burroughs

Director of Strategic Partnerships