The Trump Administration’s New ACA Marketplace Rule Gives Insurance Companies Flexibility and Consumers Red Tape. Medical ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. In this brief, we report findings from ...

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Massachusetts' passage of health care reform ...

The United States spends nearly double what many other high-income countries spend on health care. Even so, health outcomes for Americans are often worse, and evidence of waste and inefficiency ...

A new report from the Urban Institute and the Commonwealth Fund, Comparing Health Insurance Reform Options: From "Building on the ACA" to Single Payer, estimates the impact of eight health care reform ...

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Summary: With pay-for-performance (P4P) programs ...

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 ...

During the pandemic, rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems skyrocketed among young people in the United States. Perhaps the most distressing report: nearly 20 percent of high ...

Causes of Coverage Gaps More than 60 percent of uninsured people are eligible for coverage with some type of subsidy (Exhibit 2). 10 Some enrollment barriers for eligible individuals are policy-driven ...

In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...

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 ...

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 ...