Hello Partners,

As Congress and the Senate continues to consider a reconciliation bill with harmful cuts to Medicaid, the ACA and other vital safety net programs, today, Families USA released our refreshed Affordability Agenda which urges lawmakers to change course and pursue an agenda that will truly lower health care costs for Americans, ease the financial burden on taxpayers, and improve the quality of health care for people who need it.

You can read the agenda here.

This affordability agenda outlines several well-vetted reforms that take aim directly at our health care affordability crisis to provide immediate relief for families and that generates significant budget savings. Collectively, these policies would promote meaningful transparency in the health care system and rein in unchecked corporate greed that undermines health care affordability and quality, including the corporate coding abuses in Medicare Advantage (MA), pharmaceutical corporation gaming of patent laws, and large hospital systems and their abusive pricing practices.

As we continue to defend Medicaid and the ACA, we encourage you all as organizations in the affordability movement to urge federal lawmakers and your state delegations to prioritize these commonsense, pro-consumer reforms highlighted in these resources the agenda, which will actually lower costs and promote more affordable and quality health care for all.

We are calling on our partners to take the following actions right now:

Urge your Senators to offer pro-consumer reforms included in these resources the agenda as amendments to the reconciliation bill in place of Medicaid or ACA cuts to help undermine GOP agreement on bill savers and ultimately the entire reconciliation bill.
Use and share broadly Families USA Action's Same Service Same Price letter writing tool to generate letters to Senators that call for Congress to lower health care costs and pass pro-consumer reforms, including same service same price payment reforms, instead of harmful cuts to coverage
Submit your patient story on hospital pricing abuses to [email protected].

Thank you, and please reach out if you have any questions or would like to collaborate more closely on carrying out these actions.

Mike Persley

Strategic Partnerships Campaign Manager

Families USA