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Beyond Maternal Mortality: How Severe Morbidity Reveals Policy Gaps in Maternal Care

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...
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What Texas Can Teach Us About the Crisis in Primary Care

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...
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Massachusetts Health Care Reform--On Second Anniversary of Passage, What Progress Has Been Made?

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 ...
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2013–14 Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship

The Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals—academics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision-makers in ...
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Maternal Mortality in the United States, 2025

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...
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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2026

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 ...
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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes

In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. 1 Americans ...
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Positive Outliers: How Some Rural Communities Maintain Access to Labor and Delivery Services

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 ...
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Closing Health Coverage Gaps: The Impact of Enrollment and Retention Policies

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 ...
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Low Marketplace Premiums Often Reflect High Deductibles

Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...
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Filling Gaps in Access to Mental Health Treatment for Teens and Young Adults

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 ...