Compared to people in many other high-income nations, Americans are the most likely to have problems paying for their medical care.1 Unlike these countries, the United States doesn’t have universal ...

AI and digital health technologies will not advance equity on their own. But if designed and implemented with underserved ...

Environmental Sustainability Is an Integral Part of Health Care’s Quality Mission. The new UCI Health hospital in Irvine, ...

Investing more in rural-specific research. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy supports rural health research ...

Two of five Americans — 42 percent — know someone who has died of a drug overdose.1 Between 2019 and 2024, nearly half a million Americans died of a drug overdose, including three years of over ...

“[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 ...

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2025 Affordability Survey and Focus Groups U.S. adults with private insurance are anxious and frustrated about getting and paying for the care they need through ...

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 ...