Private equity in health care has grown considerably over 10 years, raising concerns about the consequences for cost, quality ...

The outcomes of this fall’s elections will profoundly affect Americans’ ability to access affordable, equitable health care.

A senior woman with a walker opens mail in her mailroom. When Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are denied coverage for ...

Aimee Cicchiello joined the Commonwealth Fund in 2019 as a program assistant in the Cost Control and Medicare Programs. She was responsible for a variety of duties ranging from daily administrative ...

A core goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to make comprehensive individual market health insurance more affordable. To accomplish this, the law features insurance premium tax credits (PTCs) as ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. The Advisory Committee on Ground ...

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

Medicare beneficiaries, many of whom live on fixed incomes, look for ways to make the costs of health care more affordable. Prescription drug costs comprise about one-quarter of beneficiaries’ ...

In 2022, public health authorities detected polio in wastewater in London and in New York, where a polio infection was also reported. 1 Reductions in childhood vaccination rates during the COVID-19 ...

The U.S. health system is largely failing in its fundamental mission to protect Americans’ health, ranking last among 10 nations on key health equity, access to care, and outcome measures, a new ...