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 ...

American families are confronting harsh financial realities of late, from rising unemployment and sluggish wage growth to high food and fuel costs and tight credit. Added to these worries are soaring ...

Moving the needle on health care access and health disparities is no easy task. Inequities for people of color are embedded in the U.S. health system, shaping their health care journeys and often ...

The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for ...

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 ...

Many early discoveries of how poverty and other social risk factors shape the trajectory of disease are the result of researchers leveraging large datasets to study rare events. One was the Dutch ...

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’ ...

After many decades of largely abstinence-based efforts to curb substance use in the United States, harm reduction has become a central tenet of the nation’s strategy for reducing overdoses.