This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U ...

A growing number of medical practices are backed by private equity investment, a shift that is impacting physician income and ...

Novel medicines hold promise for patients, but rising costs pose affordability and equity challenges for health systems ...

The renewed debate over Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing in the United States reflects a legitimate frustration: ...

One of the central challenges of introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to any industry is that its promise and peril are so entwined. The tools that automate routine tasks, such as scheduling ...

With hospital financing largely tailored to urban contexts, a growing number of rural hospitals are closing their doors, leaving many rural residents without a place to go for care. Since 2005, nearly ...

In 2026, Affordable Care Act (ACA) premiums increased by more than 20 percent, in large part because insurers believe they are facing increased risk due to the expiration of enhanced premium tax ...

Primary care is facing existential challenges — from lower relative investment compared to specialty care to clinician burnout — which are particularly acute in rural communities. 1 For the more than ...

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...

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. Over the next 10 years, ...

While premiums for individual market coverage typically increase each year, not since the early days of the first Trump administration have costs been poised to rise by as much as they will in 2026.