Despite still having the highest rate of overdose deaths, the U.S. and several countries have seen a decrease in overdose ...

Over the past five years, a growing number of states have enacted laws to reduce the financial harm from medical debt, which affects an estimated three in 10 U.S. adults.1 For example, 14 states fully ...

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...

“[I’m excited about] the potential of AI, because . . . with the downside also comes the upside.” Primary care clinicians spend an increasing amount of time on administrative tasks, meaning less time ...

More people die during and after childbirth in the United States than in any other high-income country — but that is not the whole picture. Every year, thousands of people experience serious health ...

Findings from the 2025 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey Primary care touches almost every aspect of our health. Beyond delivering essential preventive services — such as annual ...

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 ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

Disparities in health and health care between racial and ethnic groups do not exist in the abstract. In every U.S. state, differences in access to care, quality of care, or outcomes of care affect ...

Congress authorized more than $900 billion in Medicaid cuts, the largest in the program’s 60-year history, when it passed its budget reconciliation bill in July 2025. The tax and spending law, known ...

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 ...

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 ...