Insured patients, especially those outside urban areas, described a shortage of health care providers, both for primary care ...

On March 1, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States ...

Of all the many imperfections of U.S. health care markets, the most egregious might be the noncompetitive conditions created when health care providers, particularly hospitals and health systems, ...

Additional standards in the Affordable Care Act for plan design, marketing, and enrollment could improve consumer ...

The maternal mortality rate in the United States has for many years exceeded that of other high-income countries. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Centers ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect State Budgets? Is expanding eligibility for Medicaid a good deal for states? This question has loomed over state policymakers for more than a decade.

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

More people than ever rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for health insurance. 1 Millions more will become eligible for marketplace coverage after losing Medicaid as the ...

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 ...