Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some have limited provider networks, while and others require high cost sharing for ...

Check out our map and state fact sheets for state-by-state information on Medicaid's role in bringing access to care and federal dollars to states.

Recently, in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed whether health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — ...

The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, formerly the Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, is a yearlong program offering intensive study in health ...

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here.

For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the first Trump ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

2017 Physician Capacity and Utilization 7.7 2.8 6.8 n/a 4.3 5 6.1 9.9 n/a n/a 6.8 12.6 8.3 3.8 4.5 n/a 2.8 4.3 n/a 4 OECD 2019 Data from 2017 (or nearest year available).

Munira Z. Gunja, M.P.H., is senior researcher in the Commonwealth Fund’s International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations. She joined the Fund in 2015 as senior research associate in ...

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., is an Emeritus Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor of the casebook Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in ...