Four years after going out on a limb to get Medicaid expansion enacted in Ohio, outgoing Republican Gov. John Kasich is worried about the future of the program. So he is now defending it — through a study and through the stories of people who have bene…
The Trump administration is facing a key test with Mississippi’s Medicaid program as the state seeks permission to be the first ever to impose work requirements without expanding Medicaid under Obamacare. Already one of the poorest states in the natio…
The price we pay for health care often has little connection to what it actually costs. One hospital decided to investigate. Gundersen Health System set out to tally how much it cost to perform knee-replacement surgery. For nearly a decade, Gundersen H…
Most of the prominent Democrats eyeing 2020 presidential bids—including Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts—champion the idea of “Medicare for all,” suggesting it’s become almost a litm…
More than two in five senior citizens report feeling lonely – a condition that can increase risk of chronic disease.
Partnerships have been one of the key ways the Commonwealth Fund has worked over its 100 years to promote a high-performing health system. Some of our collaborations with other foundations, educational institutions, private industry, and government age…
Most high-income countries spend a lot less on drugs per person than the United States does, even though their citizens use about the same amount of medications as Americans. An important reason: they pay lower prices. How do they do it?
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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…
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…
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…
