Resource Roundup

Dear Health Advocates,

As we all (hopefully) enjoy a bit of August recess, we’re busily preparing for September when expected actions from the Administration and a potential health care package in Congress will mean our advocacy picks up steam. We're amplifying a new paper on prescription drug reform and the reality of how innovation happens in the pharmaceutical realm. We're also boosting an upcoming webinar to help you comment on important issues in the MPFS and OPPS Proposed Rules. You can find more on these rules/opportunities below, as well as this week’s new resources:

Action Items

• 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!

Upcoming Events

• NEW! Families USA Webinar: Families USA 2023 MPFS and OPPS Rules Webinar
• CMS Webinar Series: Medicaid and CHIP Renewals: Coalition Webinars for Reaching Out to Special Populations

Resources For Your Health Advocacy

Health Coverage

• Families USA Issue Brief: How to Make Health Insurance More Affordable by Strengthening Rate Review Laws
• Families USA Form: Share Your Story - Junk Health Insurance Plans
  • Proposed Rule (comments due 9/11): Junk Plan Proposed Rule
• Families USA Insights: Pushing the Needle Forward on Health Insurance Protections and Fighting Junk Plans
• Families USA Issue Brief: Medicaid Redeterminations Are Here: States Still Have Options to Pave the Way Toward Greater Government Efficiency
• Families USA Factsheet: Lost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Stay Covered
  • Spanish Version

Health Care Value

• NEW! Families USA Report: The Reality of Prescription Drug Innovation: Drug Manufacturers Limit Innovation to Protect Patents and Profits

  Inhospitable Film Panel: Profits Over Patients: How the Big Business of Hospitals Harms Consumers

• Proposed Rule (comments due 9/11): Revisions to Payment Policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Quality Payment Program

• Proposed Rule (comments due 9/11): CY 2024 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Proposed Rule

• Families USA Report: California's Office of Health Care Affordability: An Opportunity to Realize True Affordability
• Families USA Report: Gaming the System: How Hospitals are Driving Up Health Care Costs by Abusing Site of Service

Health Equity 

• Families USA Interview with Ola Ojewumi: Celebrating Disability Pride Month
• Families USA Report: Health Equity Task Force: 2023 Federal Priorities

• Families USA Report: Investing In Our Moms: Three Ways State Medicaid Programs Can Improve Maternal Health

Protecting Mifepristone 

• Families USA Resource: Health Consequences Of A Mifepristone Ban Infographic
• Planned Parenthood Resource: Mifepristone Case Toolkit

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,

Nate Keller

Partnerships Mobilization Associate