However, starting last spring, the federal government has reversed course on longstanding vaccine guidance. First, the ...

Strengthening the standards to which Medicaid managed care organizations are held would likely improve access to and delivery ...

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

Policymakers are exploring reforms to address shortcomings of risk adjustment that inflate Medicare Advantage payments and ...

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

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

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 ...

Longstanding shortages in the direct care workforce are making it increasingly difficult for older adults and younger people with disabilities to live at home. These shortages, exacerbated by the ...

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. In some regions, employers ...

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 ...

Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest nation, established a Family Health Strategy in 1994, which uses community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic primary care to families at home, relay information ...