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U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
The U.S. can learn from other countries by tracking emerging trends and adopting comprehensive approaches to prevention and ...
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Trends in Employer Health Insurance Costs, 2014–2023: Coverage Is More Expensive for Workers in Small Businesses
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Employer-sponsored health ...
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Hispanic/Latino Adults Lack Adequate, Affordable Health Insurance Coverage
Good health insurance is an essential component of affordable, accessible, and equitable health care. That’s why the Commonwealth Fund regularly asks people: how good is your coverage? And, when we ...
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NEW INTERNATIONAL SURVEY: Older Adults in U.S. Struggle with Health Care Costs More Than Those in Other Nations
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Although nearly all older ...
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Patricia Richardson Schoenbrun
Patricia Richardson Schoenbrun is a New Orleans-based writer. She served as a municipal reporter for The Daily Southtown, a daily newspaper that covers the southside of Chicago and its neighboring ...
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Remote Patient Monitoring Is Helping Patients in Europe Manage Their Chronic Conditions — Can It Work in the U.S.?
Chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are leading causes of global morbidity and mortality, with costs projected to reach $47 trillion by 2030. Many are preventable through ...
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Anne Morris Reid
Anne Morris Reid, M.P.H., policy director of the Funders Forum on Accountable Health project, is also a lecturer in the Health Policy and Management Department at the Milken Institute School of Public ...
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Jennifer Trott
Jennifer Trott, M.P.H., is a lead research scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Her focus is on ...
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Perspective: Consistency, Continuity, and Coordination—The 3Cs of Seamless Patient Care
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 ...
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In Focus: Preventing Unnecessary Hospital Readmissions
Reducing hospital readmissions—especially those that result from poor inpatient or outpatient care—has long been a health policy goal because it represents an opportunity to lower health care costs, ...
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Foundation History
The Commonwealth Fund has its origins in the philanthropic efforts of the Harkness family. Stephen V. Harkness began his career in New York State’s Finger Lakes region at age 15 as an apprentice ...
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New Jersey Raises Age for Health Insurance Dependency
New Jersey now requires all health insurers in the state to raise the age limit of dependents eligible for coverage under their parents' plan to 30—the highest in the nation. Employer-based health ...