Medicare coverage influences commercial insurance and Medicaid. Many commercial insurers follow Medicare’s coverage decisions ...

This analysis draws upon data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other cross-national analyses to compare health care spending, supply, utilization, prices, and health ...

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 ...

Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a ...

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 ...

The United States spends twice as much per person on health as the average of peer nations. 1 A number of studies have concluded that high prices are a major driver of this “excess” spending. 2 A ...

Consumer choice in health care has been advanced as a pathway for improving the quality and affordability of health care. The idea is that when people have access to full and accurate information ...

With the 2008 presidential election just weeks away, health care reform is at the top of the nation's domestic policy agenda. The soaring costs of health care, along with a faltering economy and ...

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. Employer-sponsored health ...

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law, more than 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage, with the U.S. uninsured rate reaching a record low by 2016. 1 This expansion in ...

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 ...

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 ...