Without PRAMS, the U.S. will be less able to direct public resources toward the most effective interventions for meeting ...
ACA premiums increased by 21.7 percent on average in 2026 — far outpacing expected premium increases in the ...
As we face a new year, we are experiencing nationwide double-digit commercial premium increases that are making annual family ...
On average, healthcare is 7% of employee compensation in the U.S. private sector. Assuming that total employee compensation ...
The Trump administration is sending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces into rough seas. By signing H.R. 1 into law and finalizing a new set of regulations, the administration has enacted ...
The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...
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 ...
The budget reconciliation bill — which moves to the Senate this week — includes proposals from Republicans in Congress that will make it harder for people to enroll in marketplace health plans and ...
The U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...
When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...
Findings from the 2024 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Older Adults Health care systems around the world are struggling — and at times failing — to meet the unique needs of ...
Hospitals across the United States rely on dashboards to detect subtle changes in performance, including shifts in patient satisfaction ratings, infection rates, and insurance claim denials. Designed ...