Rural Americans face significant barriers to accessing adequate primary care; tailored federal and state programs can help ...

Enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs), which were established to lower premiums and make health insurance more affordable for ...

Patent reforms could address a problem that’s been driving rising prescription drug costs and create a more competitive ...

Source: Kristen Kolb, “Lower-Income Kids Are at Higher Risk of Going Unvaccinated,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, ...

The U.S. health care system has long been marked by high spending, comparatively poor health outcomes, inequities, waste, and inefficiency. To address these issues, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

Hosted by Dr. Joel Bervell, The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed.

In 2017, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the U.S. was one of only two countries (along with the Dominican Republic) to ...

How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic? Every year, the Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance uses the latest data available to assess how well the health care ...

Primary care providers (PCPs) serve as most people’s first point of contact with the health care system. These clinicians build relationships with their patients over time and help coordinate care ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...