Rural Americans face significant barriers to accessing adequate primary care; tailored federal and state programs can help ...

The Orphan Drug Act has catalyzed innovation in rare disease treatments, but the law’s shortcomings — particularly around ...

This survey brief examines factors contributing to burnout among primary care physicians in 10 countries and strategies to ...

H.R. 1, the tax and spending law passed in 2025, requires states to implement work requirements for expanded Medicaid ...

Of all the many imperfections of U.S. health care markets, the most egregious might be the noncompetitive conditions created when health care providers, particularly hospitals and health systems, ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. The federal No Surprises ...

Bio: Jonas Scheyoegg, a 2006-07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy has been at the Berlin University of Technology since 2001, where he is currently senior lecturer in health care ...

Bio: Gerdien Franx, Ph.D., a 2012-13 Dutch Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is a health services researcher and manager of health care innovation at Trimbos Institute/Netherlands ...

Even though a “public option” health plan has support from the Biden administration as well as the majority of voters, little progress has been made in creating one at the federal level. 1 At the ...

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 ...

How prevalent are mental health issues among Medicare beneficiaries? About one in four Medicare beneficiaries live with mental illness — conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and ...