Unfortunately, federal efforts to protect people from crippling medical debt have stalled. This means that now more than ever ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance ...

Without PRAMS, the U.S. will be less able to direct public resources toward the most effective interventions for meeting ...

ACA premiums increased by 21.7 percent on average in 2026 — far outpacing expected premium increases in the ...

As we face a new year, we are experiencing nationwide double-digit commercial premium increases that are making annual family ...

On average, healthcare is 7% of employee compensation in the U.S. private sector. Assuming that total employee compensation ...

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 ...

Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...

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 ...

Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...