This issue of Transforming Care looks at how employees of health care systems are working to make AI useful while also ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

People’s health also varies markedly across and within states, as does access to health services and overall quality of care. 5 Large racial and ethnic health inequities, driven by factors both inside ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law, more than 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage, with the U.S. uninsured rate reaching a record low by 2016. 1 This expansion in ...

Critiques of ERISA’s preemption provision focus on its unpredictable breadth and its unintended consequences for regulation of health benefits. ERISA supplies relatively few federal rules for health ...

In addition to its expansion and reform of health insurance coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains numerous provisions intended to resolve underlying problems in how health care is delivered ...

The longstanding bond between employers and health insurance dates back to World War II, when the implementation of wage controls prompted companies to seek out ways to differentiate themselves from ...

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 ...

Medicaid operates alongside a number of federal grant programs that directly support “safety net” health care providers. The best-known programs are community health centers, the Ryan White CARE Act, ...