Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget bill that will seriously harm community health centers, patients, and communities by significantly reducing Medicaid funding and access, which serves as a lifeline for half of all health center patients. The bill also calls for a rushed timeline for implementation, which would create an administrative nightmare […]
The Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees held marathon markups this week to advance Republican legislation containing a number of healthcare provisions, including sweeping cuts to Medicaid. The bill is likely to be tweaked in the full House or Senate. Advocates for Community Health has compiled a detailed summary of the Medicaid-related provisions […]
Tomorrow, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will meet to consider the budget reconciliation legislation released last night. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, this bill would reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million, with many more expected to lose coverage. That amounts to at least 1 in […]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)’s analysis of potential Medicaid reform proposals underscores ACH’s prior warnings to Congress: sweeping Medicaid cuts put our country’s health care safety net at risk and would have an outsized impact on patients served by community health centers. If all the proposals reviewed by CBO – including reducing provider taxes, implementing per […]
More than 800 leaders of community health centers and primary care groups representing every state are asking congressional leadership to protect and stabilize the program, which covers about 80 million people, according to a letter shared first with STAT. “This has the potential to really break things,” Amanda Pears Kelly, CEO of Advocates for Community […]
Community health executives from all 50 states signed a letter outlining how substantial reductions in Medicaid funding would come at a cost for our nation’s largest primary care system. WASHINGTON – Advocates for Community Health (ACH), a nonpartisan membership organization for federally qualified health centers working to advance forward-thinking health policies, led over 800 […]
As the House and Senate move forward with the budget reconciliation process, Advocates for Community Health (ACH) urges lawmakers to work closely with community health centers to protect Medicaid funding that helps address chronic illness and strengthens America’s primary care system. “Our members—some of the nation’s largest community health centers—are committed to keeping care accessible,” […]
Senior leaders from more than 30 of the nation’s largest federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) recently met in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of the Health Center Program and advocate for reliable, long-term funding. During the Advocates for Community Health (ACH) Annual Member Meeting on March 25-27,2025, health policy leaders shared their insights and […]
Medicaid’s success as a national program derives from its variation across states. Medicaid looks different in every state and territory because the program is able to reflect and accommodate the specific needs of that state’s patients, providers and communities. These state-based programs are vital to the patients served by community health centers, patient-directed primary care providers that […]
Advocates for Community Health CEO Amanda Pears Kelly told CBS News yesterday: “Even with the best of intentions, these types of funding freezes can do tremendous harm. And could be irreversible to some communities. What we’re really talking about is a health center’s ability to pay salaries.” Pears Kelly said that health centers often rely […]