Upcoming Events

• NEW: Families USA Health Justice Now Webinar Series
  • Health Equity Federal Priorities Webinar: Advancing Equity in 2022: Administrative Priorities and What’s Next on the Legislative Landscape - 4/12 at 12pm ET
  • Vaccine Equity Webinar: Community Voice and Equitable Policymaking: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution - 4/26 at 1pm ET
  • Reproductive Justice Webinar: Abortion Laws: A Public Health Crisis (Part I) - 5/5 at 1pm ET
  • State Level Recommendations on Health Equity: Community Voices: How State Policymakers Can Advance Health Equity - 5/12 at 1pm ET

Sign On Letters

• Cross Sector Coverage Council Redeterminations Letter - due by 4/15 COB
• Consent for Sterilization Form Comment Sign-On - due by 4/14 at 6pm ET. For more information on this letter, please see this copy of comments.

Resources for Your Health Advocacy 

• Medicaid Redeterminations
  • FUSA Issue Brief: Medicaid Programs Should Protect Health Care for Millions of Families by Implementing a New Federal Option for SNAP-Based Electronic Renewal
  • CMS Fact Sheet: Redetermination Guidance
  • CMS Toolkit: Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Enrollment Unwinding

• Health Equity

  • FUSA Report: Community Voices: Recommendations to State Policymakers for Advancing Health Equity
  • CMS Press Release: Opportunity to Comment on Medicaid Equity Request for Information (RFI)
  • FUSA Fact Sheet: Advancing Equity in 2022: Federal Policy Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Health System Transformation
• Hospital Pricing
  • NEW - FUSA Insights Column: Hospital Consolidation - How Hospitals' Machinations Affect Real People
• Prescription Drug Pricing
  • FUSA Statement: Finance Hearing Statement For The Record on Addressing the High Cost of Prescription Drugs
• COVID-19
  • The White House Fact Sheet: Consequences of Lack of Funding for Efforts to Combat COVID-19 if Congress Does Not Act
  • FUSA Insights Column: No One Knows A Community Better Than Those Who Live There: Leaders Who Stepped Up When Their Neighbors Needed Them Most 
  • FUSA Digital Toolkit: COVID-19 Related Resources

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

Have a great weekend,

Tiana Rodriguez
Strategic Partnerships Coordinator