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

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, is Professor at Yale School of Public Health, Director of the Yale Global Health Initiative, Faculty Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, and Master at ...

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 ...

More than 79 million people are enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, making them the largest health insurers in the United States. The main source of coverage for ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...

Hospitals across the United States rely on dashboards to detect subtle changes in performance, including shifts in patient satisfaction ratings, infection rates, and insurance claim denials. Designed ...

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 ...

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., is an Emeritus Professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor of the casebook Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in ...

Massachusetts is working hard to develop the rules and implement the mechanisms associated with the universal health care reform signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney in April. A team led by Health ...

The Commonwealth Fund has its origins in the philanthropic efforts of the Harkness family. Stephen V. Harkness began his career in New York State’s Finger Lakes region at age 15 as an apprentice ...

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 ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Summary: An innovative project in ...