Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar for the Expanding Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance programs at the Commonwealth Fund. An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s ...
Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...
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 ...
This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
International comparisons show that the United States lags other high-income nations on core maternal health measures like the size and composition of the perinatal workforce (i.e., clinical and ...
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 ...
In 2025, enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces rose to an all-time high of 24 million. This was double the enrollment figure from four years prior, with the increase largely due to ...