In Case You Missed It

Here are some important resources Families USA released at the end of 2025. We hope they can be helpful in your work!

• Year in Review: Year in Review: In a 2025 Defined by Huge Health Care Cuts, Health Advocates Still Advanced an Affordability Agenda

  Insights Blog: What Health Care Consumers Need to Know About ACA Marketplace Coverage for 2026
• Insights Blog: Federal Officials Have Spoken, and Now it’s the States’ Turn: “Lookback Period” for Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements
• Insights Blog: Health access on the line: How Trump’s proposed public charge rule hurts all of us and weakens our health care system
  • Full comment letter
• Statement: Despite New Proposed Rules, Gender-Affirming Care is Essential Health Care

Dear Health Advocates,

Happy New Year! We at Families USA hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready to get back to work as we jump right back into advocacy.

In December, House Democrats were joined by 4 Republicans in passing a discharge petition to bring a clean three-year extension of the enhanced premium tax credits to the floor. The House could vote on this bill as soon as tomorrow. It is unclear whether enough Republicans will vote for the bill to pass the House, or if they will coalesce around a more conservative bill supported by House Republican leadership.

Stop the Healthcare Heist Emergency Week of Action

Around this vote, the Economic Security Project is hosting a Stop the Healthcare Heist Week of Action from January 6-15, with a specific focus on a vote in the House this week. The following actions will help us ensure our voices are heard during this crucial time:

• Before the vote (Jan 6 - Jan 8) - Public pressure and storytelling
  
  • Call your members by calling in to the Capitol Switchboard and requesting your member at (202) 224-3121
  • Email your members using CHN Action's form!
• Day of the vote (Jan 8) - Social media day of action
  • Tag your member 
  • Use #HealthcareHeist
  • Use graphics supplied by Economic Security Project
• After the vote - Public feedback and more organized actions
  • Continue to thank those who championed affordability and call out those who voted against it
  • Should House vote pass, shift focus to your Senators
    • Email using CHN Action's form
    • Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121

You can find the full toolkit, talking points, and graphics at this link. Please reach out to Jennifer Kim ([email protected]) with any questions.

• Fact Sheet: The Importance of Premium Tax Credits: Affording Health Insurance Coast to Coast (Spanish), Families USA.

• Publication: Medicaid Work Requirements: Mitigating Harm through Implementation, NHeLP.

• Fact Sheet: Why Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Skyrocket, Families USA.

• Blog: Clarifying Access: What New Federal SNAP Restrictions and Guidance Mean for Immigrant Communities, NILC.

• Toolkit: Mitigating the Harms of Medicaid Work Requirements for Older Adults: Tools for State Advocates, Justice in Aging.

  Insights blog: Republicans’ Harmful Budget Cuts and Attacks Are Undermining Immigrants’ Health Care, Families USA.

• Blog: The Trump Administration’s Refusal to Feed American Families, FRAC.

• Report: What’s in the government funding bill the Senate is moving, what isn’t, and what to watch next, We Build Progress.

• Infographic: Open enrollment explainer, Community Catalyst

• Blog: Reducing or Eliminating the Title X Family Planning Program Would Restrict Contraceptive Access Nationwide, Commonwealth Fund.

• Blog: 300,000 Lawfully Present Immigrants Will Be Newly Ineligible for Health Care Help in This Open Enrollment Period, NILC.

• Insights Blog: Smoke and Mirrors vs. Policy and Meaningful Change: What’s Real and What’s Political Theater in the Fight for Lower Prescription Drug Prices, Families USA.

• Insights Blog: Sowing Distrust and Dismantling Science: Escalating Threats to Vaccine Access, Families USA.

• Insights Blog: What the Government Shutdown Debate is Really About: Health Care Tax Credits for Working Class Americans, Families USA.

• Fact Sheet: Fact Checking Immigrants, Health Care, and the 2025 Tax and Budget Law, Families USA

• Fact Sheet: State Policy Options to Address Health Care Consolidation and Lower Hospital Prices, Families USA.

• Blog: Turning Lemons into Lemonade: State Applications Underscore the Limitations of OBBBA's Rural Health Transformation Program, NHeLP.

• Fact Sheet: State Strategies for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), Milbank Memorial Fund.

• Toolkit: Work Reporting Requirements: State Considerations When Defining Medical Frailty, State Health and Value Strategies.

• Interactive Map: Tracking State Preparation for the Rural Health Transformation Program, State Health & Value Strategies.

• Article: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Increase the Number of Americans Without Health Coverage in Every State and Congressional District, Center for American Progress.

• Federal Guidance: CMS Issues New State Guidance on Transformative Medicaid Reforms.

• Policy Brief: Medicaid: A Lifeline for Latines and Immigrants, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice.

• Analysis: Medicaid Expansion Reduces Maternal Mortality: Medicaid Cuts Would Be Deadly for Mothers and Babies, Families USA.

• Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet: Republicans Are Working to Gut Medicaid, a Lifeline for People With Mental Health Conditions and Opioid Addiction, Protect Our Care.

• Insights Blog: Work Reporting Requirements Don’t Work: An in-depth look as Idaho moves closer to adding costly red tape to Medicaid, Families USA.

Have a great week,

Nate Keller

Partnerships Mobilization Associate

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