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 ...

Millions of Americans aren’t able to get and afford the care they need, find appropriate medical providers in their area, or get help managing their conditions. The U.S.’s high health care costs, lack ...

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...

Findings from the 2025 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey Primary care touches almost every aspect of our health. Beyond delivering essential preventive services — such as annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Issue: Most people with Medicaid who have given birth in the past 12 months are enrolled in Medicaid managed care (MMC), underscoring the essential role state Medicaid agencies and managed care ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Yet the goal of simplifying health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...