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

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...

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 ...

Professor, Political Science, Director, Mansfield Center’s Ethics and Public Affairs Program, University of Montana Robert P. Saldin, Ph.D., is a professor of political science and director of the ...

Tanya Alteras, M.P.P., is a senior consultant at Health Management Associates. Formerly a senior policy analyst at ESRI, she has over six years of experience examining issues related to health care ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

Kata M. Kertesz, J.D., is managing policy attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy. She engages in public policy issues surrounding Medicare, those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, oral ...

Joshua Seidman, Ph.D., is chief research and knowledge officer at Fountain House. He joined the organization in 2021. Seidman has spent 35 years working at the intersection of research, policy, and ...

The celebration of a new year marks an opportunity to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. At the Commonwealth Fund, we take stock of what we observed, what we learned, and how we ...

Rachel Hand, L.M.S.W., M.P.H., is associate director of research for the research, analytics, knowledge, and evaluation (RAKE) team at Fountain House and a licensed social worker. She joined the ...

Lawsuits are stalling the implementation of a Biden administration rule aimed at curbing insurance agents’ and brokers’ ability to inappropriately steer beneficiaries into private Medicare plans. For ...