Health insurance coverage in the United States is at an inflection point. After a decade and a half of expanding coverage for Americans, coverage and access to care are now in decline, as the ...

Freestanding birth centers are community-based facilities — separate from hospitals or medical centers — that care for people with low-risk pregnancies throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum ...

Compared to people in many other high-income nations, Americans are the most likely to have problems paying for their medical care.1 Unlike these countries, the United States doesn’t have universal ...

Essential to any high-performing health system is coordination of primary care with other medical care and social services that patients receive.1 When primary care practices, specialists, hospitals, ...

Over the past five years, a growing number of states have enacted laws to reduce the financial harm from medical debt, which affects an estimated three in 10 U.S. adults.1 For example, 14 states fully ...

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...

Findings from the 2025 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey Primary care touches almost every aspect of our health. Beyond delivering essential preventive services — such as annual ...

Our colleague and coauthor, Professor Joseph Cordes, a noted economist and a budget and tax expert, passed away in February 2026. Issue: The 2025 budget reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2025 Affordability Survey and Focus Groups U.S. adults with private insurance are anxious and frustrated about getting and paying for the care they need through ...