Insured patients, especially those outside urban areas, described a shortage of health care providers, both for primary care ...

On March 1, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States ...

Additional standards in the Affordable Care Act for plan design, marketing, and enrollment could improve consumer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primary care providers (PCPs) serve as most people’s first point of contact with the health care system. These clinicians build relationships with their patients over time and help coordinate care ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...

The Dutch home-care provider Buurtzorg Nederland has attracted widespread interest for its innovative use of self-governing nurse teams. Rather than relying on different types of personnel to provide ...

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...

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 ...

Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System That Addresses Ongoing and Future Health Crises, Advances Equity, and Earns Trust More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, a ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...