Insured patients, especially those outside urban areas, described a shortage of health care providers, both for primary care ...

On March 1, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...

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 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 ...

Congressional Republicans are considering making major funding cuts to Medicaid, the primary payer in the United States for long-term services and supports (LTSS). LTSS include services delivered in ...

To comply with MHPAEA, the new rule requires insurers to collect and analyze outcome data, such as rates of out-of-network utilization and denied claims, to assess whether the treatment limits imposed ...

To help people afford plans sold in the health insurance marketplaces, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also sometimes called Obamacare) provides low- and middle-income individuals with premium tax ...

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 ...

Additional standards in the Affordable Care Act for plan design, marketing, and enrollment could improve consumer ...

Good health insurance is an essential component of affordable, accessible, and equitable health care. That’s why the Commonwealth Fund regularly asks people: how good is your coverage? And, when we ...