Work requirements for ACA Medicaid expansion enrollees will lead to coverage losses that will reduce hospital revenues and ...

The United States spends more on health care than any other country, yet Americans continue to experience worse health outcomes than their international peers. What lessons can the U.S. learn from ...

The Commonwealth Fund’s Expanding Coverage and Access program seeks to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has access to ...

The high level of U.S. spending puts a tremendous strain on businesses, governments, and household budgets. It makes care increasingly unaffordable for people — even to the point where many forgo or ...

We believe everyone should be able to get the effective, affordable care they need to maintain and improve their health. Focusing on people who have low incomes and those who are medically underserved ...

Second, undergirding these pillars is the basic principle that everyone, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much ...

Ph.D., is a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, S.C. He serves as the director of the South Carolina Center for Rural and ...

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 ...

Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...

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 ...

Many people who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are eligible for tax credits that lower their monthly premiums. In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic still raged, ...