Recently, in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed whether health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — ...

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...

Rachel Hand, L.M.S.W., M.P.H., is associate director of research for the research, analytics, knowledge, and evaluation (RAKE) team at Fountain House and a licensed social worker. She joined the ...

The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, formerly the Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, is a yearlong program offering intensive study in health ...

While the federal government and the states jointly fund Medicaid, each state runs its own program, subject to federal requirements. The federal government covers between 50 percent and 77 percent of ...

For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the first Trump ...

2017 Physician Capacity and Utilization 7.7 2.8 6.8 n/a 4.3 5 6.1 9.9 n/a n/a 6.8 12.6 8.3 3.8 4.5 n/a 2.8 4.3 n/a 4 OECD 2019 Data from 2017 (or nearest year available).

Summary: Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to ...

Despite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared with six other industrialized countries—Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Currently, 18 states have some ...