The Commonwealth Fund

“With the states’ individual markets remaining upright despite repeated pounding, it has become clear that the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits have acted as a central stabilizing force,” write the Commonwealth Fund’s Sara Collins and Munira G…

Health care sharing ministries are not traditional insurance; instead, they provide people who follow a common set of religious beliefs with financial assistance for medical expenses. A Commonwealth Fund report by researchers with the Georgetown Univer…

The Yale University School of Management this week launched a new Commonwealth Fund–supported fellowship dedicated to training clinicians who want to improve care for vulnerable populations. In a new To the Point post, Commonwealth Fund President David…

The end of the individual mandate penalty in 2019 and the Trump administration’s promotion of short-term health plans are among recent policy changes that could significantly erode people’s ability to find affordable, comprehensive coverage in the indi…

Drug overdose deaths more than doubled between 2005 and 2016, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. In a new To the Point post, the Commonwealth Fund’s Susan Hayes, David Radley, and Douglas McCarthy co…

Critical providers of health services in low-income communities are struggling with funding shortfalls as they try to meet increased demand for a wide range of patient services. To learn how these providers and communities are coping, Harvard’s Katheri…

Medicare beneficiaries who also qualify for Medicaid coverage — so-called dual-eligible beneficiaries — use more health care and incur much higher costs than those enrolled in Medicare only. But a Commonwealth Fund–supported study in Health Affairs led…

“As state legislators, we are responsible for the wise stewardship of taxpayers’ money. The state spends a lot of taxpayers’ money on prescription drugs, through Medicaid, corrections and jails, state employees, higher education employees and their dep…

States around the country are clamping down on pharmaceutical companies, forcing them to disclose and justify price increases, but the drug manufacturers are fighting back, challenging the state laws as a violation of their constitutional rights. Even …

New York University said Thursday that it will cover tuition for all its medical students regardless of their financial situation, a first among the nation’s major medical schools and an attempt to expand career options for graduates who won’t be saddl…