Dear Health Advocates,

As we shared last week, registration for Health Action Conference 2026 is officially OPEN! The conference will be held from January 22-23 here in Washington, DC at the Capital Hilton. Whether you're a HAC veteran or a first-timer, we hope you can join other dynamic health advocates from across the country at our annual convening where we will strengthen the movement for health and health care justice.

Find more details and register here. We also ask that you fill out our pre-conference survey to help us make HAC even better for advocates like you! 

Programming Note

Families USA will be taking a brief two-week hiatus from our Resource Roundup and will bring you the next edition on Tuesday, September 2. Please reach out with any questions or concerns you have between now and then

The Rest of August: Congress in Recess and an Upcoming Webinar

Congress is currently away for August recess. As we have said these past few weeks, members of Congress will be in their districts all month, and it's our job (and yours) to remind them just how harmful their votes to cut health care in HR 1 are. You can use our email writing form to hold your members accountable or thank them for voting against HR 1. We also have a new insights blog for you to reference during this time.

With the passage of HR 1, health care affordability will be more relevant than ever, and it's important that we continue advocating for consumers. That's why we're asking you to sign on to our letter urging Congress to act without delay upon return in September to pass common sense well-vetted policy solutions that would address the healthcare affordability crisis.

We also invite you to join our administrative advocacy webinar on Wednesday, August 27, at 3pm ET, where we will discuss the proposed Trump administrative changes to hospital and physician payment that both advance important policy changes to rein in industry abuses and increase payment for primary care but also that repeal critical requirements to advance health equity, and opportunities to join federal comment letters. You can register to attend here.

• Insights Blog: A Trillion Dollar Cut to Care: The Fight for Medicare and Medicaid, Families USA.
• Fact Sheet: Federal Budget Reconciliation Law Implementation Timeline for Key Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace Provisions, Families USA.
• Insights Blog: Timeline of Trump’s New Health Care Law: What You Need to Know, Families USA.
• Blog: A Cut by Any Other Name: How “Strengthening” Asset Tests Hurts Medicaid, NHeLP.

• Blog: Medicaid Work Requirements Will Take Away Coverage From Millions: State and Congressional District Estimates, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

• Blog: What Does the 2025 Reconciliation Law (H.R. 1) Mean for Older Adults and People with Disabilities on Medicare? Commonwealth Fund.

• Blog: States Pursuing Medicaid Work Requirement Waivers Must Make Changes: How the OBB Changed the Landscape for Medicaid Work Requirements, Georgetown Center for Children and Families.
• Insights Blog: Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”, Families USA.
• Insights Blog: Actions by Trump and Congress are Leading to Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums in 2026, Families USA.

• Report: Rural Hospital Revenue Could Drop by $87 Billion over 10 Years Because of the Reconciliation Bill and Expiring Enhanced Tax Credits, Urban Institute.

• Insights Blog: Marketplace Final Rule Sets Major Hurdles to Coverage, Families USA.

• Video: 90 Seconds or Less Policy Explainers. Families USA.

• Comments: Families USA Submits Comments On Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations — Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole Proposed Rule, Families USA.
• Comments: Families USA Submits Comments On the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan 1115 Demonstration Amendment, Families USA.

• Report: How Medicaid and SNAP Cutbacks in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Would Trigger Big and Bigger Job Losses Across States, The Commonwealth Fund

• Fact Sheets: Congressional Medicaid Fact Sheets, Families USA.

• Sign On Letter Wrap Up: More than 85 National Organizations Urge Senate to Reject “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Health Care Cuts and Prioritize Transparency, Rigor of Analysis, and Constituents’ Health Access (06/15/2025), Families USA.
• 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.

• Media Coverage of Families USA and State Partners Advocacy Work
  • Durango Herald (op-ed) - Rep. Jeff Hurd has turned his back on Colorado’s 3rd District
  • Maine Morning Star: Medicaid cuts could cost Maine hospitals $66 million a year, report finds
  • Charleston Gazette Mail:  Already struggling WV hospitals brace for costly budget reconciliation law impacts

  • Argonaut, University of Idaho’s student newspaper - Idaho senators and representative signal support for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

Have a great week,

Nate Keller

Senior Associate, Organizing and Mobilization

Families USA

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