The United States spends more than twice as much as some other industrialized countries on health care. Yet, based on reports from patients, the U.S. health system does not perform as well as systems in several other countries in terms of the safety, efficiency, equity, and "patient-centeredness" of the care provided. Read more »
America's uninsured crisis disproportionately affects lower-income working families. But new survey data show that moderate-income Americans are increasingly going without health coverage as well. Read more »
Expanding coverage to the uninsured should be Congress's top health care policy priority for the next five years, say a majority of respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey. Read more »
In recent testimony before the U.S. Congress, Sara R. Collins said that price transparency in health care is unlikely to have a major impact without better information on quality and total bills. Read more »
Medicaid agencies report that pharmaceutical costs are a major driver of overall program spending growth, according to a new Fund brief on agencies in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington. Read more »