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…
Former Harkness Fellow Jan C. Frich and Ivan Spehar of the University of Oslo in Norway explore U.S. health care executives’ perspectives on physician leadership development in an article for BMJ Leader. Their study of the potential benefits and challe…
“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…
This round-up of international health policy news stories reports on Australia’s launch of a website to help people with end-of-life planning; Ontario’s move to offer free prescription drugs to seniors; England’s deployment of pharmacists to nursing ho…
Yale University announced the launch of a new Commonwealth Fund-supported fellowship program dedicated to helping clinicians who want to improve care for vulnerable populations. In our centennial year, the start of this new fellowship reaffirms the Fun…
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 …
“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…
Opponents of the Trump administration’s changes to Medicaid, who recently persuaded a federal judge to block those changes in Kentucky, have filed a similar lawsuit aimed at Arkansas. In June, Arkansas became the first state to begin phasing in requir…
