Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

Historically, intentional discrimination has been a feature of America’s health care system, with practices and policies deliberately aimed at excluding certain people from care or denying them needed ...

Jennifer Podulka, M.P.Aff., senior vice president at America’s Physician Groups, is a Medicare-focused researcher, strategist, and policy adviser with more than 25 years of data analysis and project ...

Mentor: Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H., Dean, Brown University School of Public Health Co-mentor: Vincent Mor, Ph.D., Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, and the Florence Pirce Grant ...

In the 14 years since enactment of the most significant health reform legislation in half a century, it’s now clear that millions of Americans have benefited from the insurance coverage expansions, ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

The next time an employee of Glatfelter paper company in Chillicothe, Ohio, needs to go to the doctor for a 30-minute visit to make sure she's responding well to a new medication, she can expect to be ...

Community health centers (CHCs) are providing high-quality, comprehensive primary care to more patients than ever. In 2023, CHCs served a record-setting 31 million patients, including more than 19 ...

At a time when half the U.S. population gets health insurance through an employer, the Commonwealth Fund National Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System will examine the ...

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), signed into law February 4, 2009, was a milestone in the development of quality measurement and improvement in publicly ...

Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A., M.Sc., is an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor of medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ...