The Commonwealth Fund is pleased to announce the launch of a major new initiative: State Health Innovation for Transformation ...

Everyone in the United States deserves health care that meets their needs. No matter who you are, where you live, or how much money you make, we should all be able to get and afford great care. A ...

For many decades, the Commonwealth Fund has worked to improve our nation’s health and health care at the state level. We’ve found that states face both unique and shared challenges in ensuring their ...

This is the second in a three-part series exploring the impact of digital technology innovations in community health centers ...

Partnerships and hands-on implementation resources are critical to help safety-net systems adopt and evaluate digital tools ...

The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, which pays for Medicare beneficiaries’ hospital bills and other services, is projected to become insolvent in 2031. Without changes to expected ...

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 ...

One of the most complex issues in health care is the development and commercialization of treatments and cures for rare and orphan diseases — those for which no drug has been developed because its ...

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 ...

The main purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health coverage affordable and available to all Americans, with the goal of near-universal coverage. To build on existing coverage (namely ...

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 ...