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

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 ...

When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...

Arizona: Navigators provide enrollment services to individuals with cognitive, hearing, speech and/or vision impairments. Delaware: Navigators provide enrollment services to pregnant women, new ...

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, ...

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

Good health insurance is an essential component of affordable, accessible, and equitable health care. That’s why the Commonwealth Fund regularly asks people: how good is your coverage? And, when we ...

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 ...

Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...

Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...

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 ...