In its current state, public health has limited political power and capacity to address the social, economic, and ...

For nearly two decades, the Commonwealth Fund has tracked health and health care in each state, seeking both to understand how the policy choices we make affect people’s health outcomes and to ...

America has reached the one-year point in a complex, challenging undertaking with no real parallel in modern social welfare policy. On April 1, 2023, state governments, operating under broad ...

Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, is known as the birthplace of gynecology. It’s a brutal history, as the field’s “founding father,” J. Marion Sims, advanced his work through experimentation on enslaved ...

In capitated health care payment models, commonly used in managed care plans and value-based care, providers receive a lump sum per patient that’s intended to cover all costs, regardless of the type ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the central importance of a well-functioning health care system. Nations that ensure affordable, efficient, and equitable access to quality care are at a clear ...

At a time when half the U.S. population gets health insurance through an employer, the Commonwealth Fund National Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System will examine the ...

This year in the United States, an estimated 2 million people will receive a new cancer diagnosis, and a growing proportion will be younger adults and people of color. Many of these cases could be ...

For many people, primary care is their first point of contact with the health system, and decades of evidence shows it is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of ...

Schools offer an invaluable opportunity for providers of mental health services to meet young people where they are — approximately 49.4 million young people were enrolled in public school in fall ...

More than two decades after public option health plans were first proposed, states have begun to implement such plans in their Affordable Care Act marketplaces. The term “public option” describes an ...