Rural Americans face significant barriers to accessing adequate primary care; tailored federal and state programs can help ...

The Orphan Drug Act has catalyzed innovation in rare disease treatments, but the law’s shortcomings — particularly around ...

This survey brief examines factors contributing to burnout among primary care physicians in 10 countries and strategies to ...

H.R. 1, the tax and spending law passed in 2025, requires states to implement work requirements for expanded Medicaid ...

Bio: Jonas Scheyoegg, a 2006-07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy has been at the Berlin University of Technology since 2001, where he is currently senior lecturer in health care ...

Bio: Gerdien Franx, Ph.D., a 2012-13 Dutch Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is a health services researcher and manager of health care innovation at Trimbos Institute/Netherlands ...

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 ...

Even though a “public option” health plan has support from the Biden administration as well as the majority of voters, little progress has been made in creating one at the federal level. 1 At the ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

Medicare beneficiaries can choose whether to receive their benefits from traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plans, which are offered by private insurers. These plans have experienced a surge ...

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 ...

Pharmacies are where most patients receive prescription drugs and, increasingly, vaccines. Retail pharmacists advise patients on their medication regimens and help them avoid drug interactions and ...