Recently, in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed whether health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — ...

First offered in 1925 and envisioned as a “reverse Rhodes Scholarship,” the Harkness Fellowships are the Commonwealth Fund’s longest-running program. Nearly 100 years later, they remain a flagship of ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

Check out our map and state fact sheets for state-by-state information on Medicaid's role in bringing access to care and federal dollars to states.

Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H., is senior vice president for Policy at the Commonwealth Fund, working closely with policymakers at the state and federal level. Ms. Nuzum is responsible for developing and ...

For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the first Trump ...

Christina Ramsay, M.P.H., is the program officer for the Commonwealth Fund’s Federal and State Health Policy program. She supports the program’s efforts to inform federal and state policymakers about ...

Most American adults take certain basic freedoms for granted—they can choose when to take a bath, what to eat for dinner, and whether to stay up late to finish a good book. But in many nursing homes, ...

Erin Trish, Ph.D., is codirector of the USC Schaeffer Center and an associate professor of pharmaceutical and health economics at the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In ...

Boris Vabson, Ph.D., is a nonresident fellow in health policy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on prescription drug policy and health insurance payment systems such as Medicare ...

The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships provide a unique opportunity for individuals who are committed to advancing health care policy and practice to spend a year in the United States conducting ...