Families USA

Health & vaccination equity - one of Families USA's most important social justice missions is building a nation where no one faces barriers to a healthy life because of who they are or where they live. To achieve this goal, we are working with a highly diverse coalition of partners, including people of color, people with disabilities, rural communities, ethnic communities, and others to create a policy agenda to address inequities. We also are increasingly focused on addressing the social determinants of health by exploring upstream approaches, such as those employing community health worker models that protect and improve health, thereby preventing the need for medical care.

Value & system transformation - Families USA's new center for affordable whole person care marks a pivotal moment in the health care value movement: an unequivocal declaration that a just system of health care is contingent on redesigning economic incentives to serve the interests of people. This underlies our commitment to holding the health care industry accountable for delivering affordable, equitable, high-quality health care and health that all people living in our nation deserve.our work through the center will focus on three overarching principles:1. State and federal policies should reform the economic incentives of the health care system to ensure business interests are only achieved when consumer interests are.2. A powerful, unified national consumer-led movement is essential to ensuring policymakers enact meaningful policy changes that uproot the fundamental economic distortions in health care payment and delivery that drive unaffordable and inequitable low-quality care.3. Health care payment and delivery must be reoriented to deliver whole-person, holistic health.

Medicaid work - Families USA is the founder and convener of the medicaid coalition. The coalition has an informal membership of over 600 organizations with a shared commitment to ensure that all americans have equal access to high-quality, affordable health care.for more than two decades, the members of the medicaid coalition have worked to protect medicaid from ongoing legislative and administrative threats, expand the program to cover more low-income people, and improve it so that it is fiscally strong and able to deliver the highest quality of care to as many people as possible over the long-term.the diverse and influential membership presently includes organizations representing: seniors, women, children, Families; disease and disability organizations; health providers; hospitals and community health centers; communities of color; faith-based communities; anti-poverty groups; labor and many other multi-issue advocacy organizations.

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