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

The Orphan Drug Act has catalyzed innovation in rare disease treatments, but the law’s shortcomings — particularly around ...

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

Dissatisfaction with the U.S. health care system is running high—really high. According to recent survey findings released by The Commonwealth Fund, 82 percent of Americans think it should be ...

H.R. 1, the tax and spending law passed in 2025, requires states to implement work requirements for expanded Medicaid ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...

Pending the outcome of the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, the fate of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, may hang in the balance. Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has a ...

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 ...

Meaningful improvements to how health care is organized, paid for, and delivered are not only needed but possible. The Commonwealth Fund’s 18-member Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform ...

Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance. This Commonwealth Fund report finds the U.S. health care ...