If incomes don’t keep pace with the increase in health care costs, paying for employer coverage could consume increasingly ...

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...

Historically, immigrants who are “lawfully present” in the United States but not citizens have had access to certain benefits, including financial help to purchase health coverage. This explainer ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

With the United States in the grips of a pandemic that will surely test our health care system, it’s worth reflecting on how the law that is now deeply woven into the fabric of American health care ...

Critiques of ERISA’s preemption provision focus on its unpredictable breadth and its unintended consequences for regulation of health benefits. ERISA supplies relatively few federal rules for health ...

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 ...

For many people, primary care is their first point of contact with the health system, and decades of evidence shows it is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of ...

Over the past decade, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been a centerpiece of value-based purchasing initiatives designed to improve health care quality and slow spending growth for patients ...

Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a ...

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...

Introduction: How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect State Budgets? Is expanding eligibility for Medicaid a good deal for states? This question has loomed over state policymakers for more than a decade.