Insurers increased premiums by more than 20 percent; the average “benchmark” premium before tax credits jumped from $497 per ...

Compared to people in many other high-income nations, Americans are the most likely to have problems paying for their medical care.1 Unlike these countries, the United States doesn’t have universal ...

Essential to any high-performing health system is coordination of primary care with other medical care and social services that patients receive.1 When primary care practices, specialists, hospitals, ...

“[I’m excited about] the potential of AI, because . . . with the downside also comes the upside.” Primary care clinicians spend an increasing amount of time on administrative tasks, meaning less time ...

Our colleague and coauthor, Professor Joseph Cordes, a noted economist and a budget and tax expert, passed away in February 2026. Issue: The 2025 budget reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2025 Affordability Survey and Focus Groups U.S. adults with private insurance are anxious and frustrated about getting and paying for the care they need through ...

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 ...

The rising cost of prescription medicines presents a significant challenge to health systems worldwide. High prices strain the budgets of public programs and insurers, limit patient access to needed ...

Primary care is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of the health care system. 1 It also has been consistently associated with improved life expectancy and ...

The United States has far higher maternal and infant mortality rates compared to other high-income nations, and stark geographic and racial/ethnic disparities. Timely, high-quality data on the factors ...

Congress authorized more than $900 billion in Medicaid cuts, the largest in the program’s 60-year history, when it passed its budget reconciliation bill in July 2025. The tax and spending law, known ...

One of the most complex issues in health care is the development and commercialization of treatments and cures for rare and orphan diseases — those for which no drug has been developed because its ...