These developments have prompted states to preserve scientifically backed services where they can: state-regulated private insurance plans, Medicaid, and public health programs. State policymakers ...

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 ...

Despite the critical role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in preventive care and chronic disease management, PCPs lack support for their mental and physical well-being, resulting in pervasive ...

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 ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

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 U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...

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 ...

As people get older, issues like physical frailty, cognitive decline, grief, and loneliness can take a serious toll on their mental health. Around the world, it is important for countries to monitor ...

In early January, the outgoing Biden administration finalized a new national standard that bans credit rating agencies from including medical debt on most consumer credit reports. The new rule, which ...

Hospitals across the United States rely on dashboards to detect subtle changes in performance, including shifts in patient satisfaction ratings, infection rates, and insurance claim denials. Designed ...