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

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

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

This survey brief examines factors contributing to burnout among primary care physicians in 10 countries and strategies to ...

Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of ...

The U.S. health care system has long been marked by high spending, comparatively poor health outcomes, inequities, waste, and inefficiency. To address these issues, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the U.S. was one of only two countries (along with the Dominican Republic) to ...

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 ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commonwealth Fund is committed to sharing research, analysis, and evidence-based policy options to respond to the crisis. Our efforts are particularly focused on ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...