H.R. 1’s Medicaid provider tax changes are projected to reduce federal investments by nearly $226 billion over 10 years and cause 2.4 million people to lose coverage.

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. The American public has ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. At the end of 2025, ...

The No Surprises Act, signed into law in 2020, went into effect for most consumers enrolled in individual and group health insurance plans on January 1, 2022. The new law addresses surprise bills for ...

Source: Faith Leonard and Gretchen Jacobson, “What Does the Decline in Medicare Part D Plan Availability Mean for Beneficiaries?,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 17, 2025.

Under H.R. 1, states must require that low-income people meet work-reporting requirements to qualify for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Everyone applying for or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a ...

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 longstanding bond between employers and health insurance dates back to World War II, when the implementation of wage controls prompted companies to seek out ways to differentiate themselves from ...

A well-functioning public health system is vital to keeping individuals, and the population at large, safe and healthy. Success in public health, however, is often invisible — we don’t notice until ...