Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...

In Exhibit 2, we measure spending as a percentage of household income rather than dollars (see Appendix 2 for further discussion of this metric). People in the highest quintile of spending as a ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. In this brief, we report findings from ...

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Massachusetts' passage of health care reform ...

The Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals—academics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision-makers in ...

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 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 ...

In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...

In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. 1 Americans ...

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 ...

The United States spends twice as much per person on health as the average of peer nations. 1 A number of studies have concluded that high prices are a major driver of this “excess” spending. 2 A ...