Dear Health Advocates,

We are excited to see many of you next week at our 2025 Health Action Conference — our 30th HAC! If you haven’t registered, please do so here ([link removed]) and join us along with over 500 attendees. The conference is at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC on January 23-24 and this year's theme is From the Frontlines: Forging the Path Forward Together.

But before then, this Thursday, January 16 at 1-2pm ET there will be a Medicaid Defense strategy call hosted by Community Catalyst, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, NHeLP and Families USA. You can register here ([link removed]). Along with new resources, opportunities to engage, and discussion on collaboration, the call will include:
• A legislative update on federal Medicaid threats;
• A presentation from alignco on what the latest Cost and Coverage Collaborative message testing to GOP voters shows about effective ways to talk about Medicaid.

We are also excited to share a new Medicaid 101 Fact Sheet! Medicaid Matters: To People, Our Economy and the Health Care System focuses on this vital health care program and emphasizes a key bottom line: Cutting Medicaid would make our country’s affordability crisis much worse.

And finally, Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Tammy Baldwin, and Representative Lauren Underwood recently reintroduced their Health Care Affordability Act. This bicameral legislation would make permanent the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits that make marketplace health plans more affordable for the vast majority of Americans. Read more from FUSA here.

You can find more on all of this below, along with this week’s new opportunities and resources:

New Resources For Your Health Advocacy
• NEW! Medicaid 101 Fact Sheet: Medicaid Matters: To People, Our Economy and the Health Care System
• NEW! Families USA Press Release: Strong Open Enrollment Numbers Signal the Need to Pass the Health Care Affordability Act
• NEW! Families USA Press Release: More Than 300 Organizations Urge New Congress to Protect and Strengthen Medicaid
• NEW PARTNER RESOURCE: NILC Resource Landing Page

Action Items
• JOIN US NEXT WEEK: Families USA HAC 2025 In Person!
• URGENT! Tell your representative to take action right now by using our letter-writing tool on Families USA Action's Same Service Same Price Website.
• URGENT! Families USA Email Writing Campaign: Urge Congress to Take Action on Advanced Premium Tax Credits!
• TAKE ACTION: Submit your patient story on hospital pricing abuses to [email protected]
• TAKE ACTION: Join Our Health Justice Now Network

FUSA in the News
• NEW! Anthony Wright, Executive Director, is quoted in HuffPost, Democratic Lawmakers Will Launch Bid To Save Extra Obamacare Subsidies
• Anthony Wright, Executive Director, is quoted in The Nation’s Health (a publication of the American Public Health Association), Public health readying for impact of new leadership in Congress, White House
• Articles on Families USA’s Medicaid sign-on letter appeared in the following publications:
o MedCity News - Over 300 Organizations Call on New Congress to Safeguard and Strengthen Medicaid
o McKnights Senior Living - Senior living represented among 300+ groups imploring Congress to protect Medicaid as ‘backbone’ of health system
o Common Dreams - As House GOP Reelects Johnson as Speaker, Coalition Says Hands Off Medicaid
o Inside Health Policy - Hundreds Of Advocates Urge New Congress To Protect Medicaid Funding

Health Equity
• Families USA Insights: Transforming Care: Addressing Health Inequities and Pitfalls through Innovative Models of Care
• Families USA Analysis: Charting the Course for Community Health Workers: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities to Secure Medicaid Reimbursement for CHWs in State Medicaid Programs
• Families USA Comments: Families USA Submits Comments on Annual Rulemaking to Improve Health Equity, Value, and Coverage
• Partner Resource: March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts Report
• Reuters article: US States Sue Over Biden Ruel Extending Health Insurance to DACA Immigrants
• Families USA Statement: Families USA’s Statement on Supreme Court’s Punt, Failure to Protect Health and Lives of Millions of Pregnant People Nationwide
• Families USA Insights Blog: Ripple Effects: The Fall Of Roe V. Wade

Health Care Value
• Families USA Fact Sheet: Stop Big Health Care Corporations from Keeping Workers and Small Businesses Under Water
• Families USA Comments: 30 Organizations Send Letter to Alabama Governor Ivey on Expanding Access to Continuous Glucose Monitors
• Families USA Fact Sheet: The Nuts and Bolts of Medicare Physician Payment — And Why It Needs Reform
• Families USA Fact Sheet: Americans Could See Major Savings on Routine Imaging Services if Congress Makes, “Same Service, Same Price” a Reality
• Families USA Fact Sheet: November Is Diabetes Awareness Month
• Families USA Webinar Recording: The Time Is Now: Coming Together to Win Against Big Hospital Corporate Greed
• Families USA Webinar: Help Alabama Families Impacted by Diabetes: Expand CGM Access
• Families USA Fact Sheet: A National Patient Safety Board: What America Needs to Ensure Patient Safety
• Families USA Statement: Families USA Statement for the Record for Finance Committee Inflation Reduction Act Hearing
• Families USA Comments: Families USA Submits Comments on 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule
• Families USA Comments: Families USA Submits Comments on Annual Rulemaking to Improve Health Equity, Value, and Coverage

Health Coverage
• Families USA Insights: Marketplace Open Enrollment Helps Keep Families Connected to Affordable Health Coverage
• Families USA Fact Sheet: Better Health, Stronger Families: Improving Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Alabama
• Families USA Webinar Recording: Overpayment, Marketing Abuses, Care Delays and More: Top Priorities for Medicare Advantage Reform
• Families USA Comment: Comment on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule “Medically Necessary” Coverage
• Families USA Comment: Written Testimony of Anthony Wright for Education and Workforce Hearing

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 at [email protected]!

Have a great week,

Nate Keller

Partnerships Mobilization Associate

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