The exhibit (overdose/drug-related mortality) uses data from a wide range of U.S. and international sources. These data sources and metrics can have important and subtle differences, and the findings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, Medicare has helped older adults and disabled people of all ages obtain the health care they need while protecting them from the financial burden of excessive medical bills.

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

In the 14 years since enactment of the most significant health reform legislation in half a century, it’s now clear that millions of Americans have benefited from the insurance coverage expansions, ...