This survey brief examines factors contributing to burnout among primary care physicians in 10 countries and strategies to ...

Rural Americans face significant barriers to accessing adequate primary care; tailored federal and state programs can help ...

Patent reforms could address a problem that’s been driving rising prescription drug costs and create a more competitive ...

Enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs), which were established to lower premiums and make health insurance more affordable for ...

Source: Kristen Kolb, “Lower-Income Kids Are at Higher Risk of Going Unvaccinated,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacies emerged as critical vaccine access sites, overtaking physicians’ offices, community ...

Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 68 million people rely on Medicare for their health coverage, including 55.5 million adults enrolled in prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D. In 2023, Part D drug spending ...

When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...