A pedestrian crosses Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2025. New federal policy ...

Insurer filings reveal widespread and substantial proposed rate increases for 2026, with insurers commonly citing increasing ...

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

Primary care physicians face growing administrative burden, owing to insurance rules, the way value-based payment is implemented, and too many care quality measures.

Harkness Fellowships are designed for midcareer professionals who are committed to advancing health policy and practice in the Commonwealth Fund’s principal areas of interest: improving health ...

Bruce C. Vladeck was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 through 1997. Subsequently, he was a presidential appointee to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future ...

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.

Reginald D. Williams II (Reggie) is the senior vice president for the Promoting International Learning and Exchange program and the special advisor for Values. He joined the Commonwealth Fund in 2020.

Faith Leonard, M.P.H., senior program associate for Medicare, Expanding Coverage and Access, joined the Commonwealth Fund in 2022. In her role, she provides research and writing support as well as ...

Samantha Chase, M.P.A., is communications manager at the Commonwealth Fund with responsibility for providing a broad range of communications and project management duties. Ms. Chase joined the Fund in ...

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 ...

Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...