Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...

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 Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, which pays for Medicare beneficiaries’ hospital bills and other services, is projected to become insolvent in 2031. Without changes to expected ...

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 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 ...

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 ...