Despite still having the highest rate of overdose deaths, the U.S. and several countries have seen a decrease in overdose ...

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 ...

M.A., is the grants technology and data analyst for the Commonwealth Fund. She serves as the Fund’s Salesforce administrator and supports the systems, data, and technology that underpin its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Within the United States, the health ...

Clare Pierce-Wrobel is a senior director for the Health Care Transformation Task Force. She previously held various positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the Office of the ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

In the United States, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher for someone giving birth in Louisiana than in California, and a child born in Mississippi is nearly ...

In Exhibit 2, we measure spending as a percentage of household income rather than dollars (see Appendix 2 for further discussion of this metric). People in the highest quintile of spending as a ...

Introduction: How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect State Budgets? Is expanding eligibility for Medicaid a good deal for states? This question has loomed over state policymakers for more than a decade.

Disparities in health and health care between racial and ethnic groups do not exist in the abstract. In every U.S. state, differences in access to care, quality of care, or outcomes of care affect ...