Novel medicines hold promise for patients, but rising costs pose affordability and equity challenges for health systems ...

The renewed debate over Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing in the United States reflects a legitimate frustration: ...

Initial numbers show marketplace sign-ups down by more than 1 million people nationwide in 2026, with enrollment expected to ...

The main purpose of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make health coverage affordable and available to all Americans, with the goal of near-universal coverage. To build on existing coverage (namely ...

Medical debt, or personal debt incurred from unpaid medical bills, is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. 1 Almost a third of working age U.S. adults are currently in debt because of ...

The health of women in the United States is in a perilous place. Deaths from preventable causes are on the rise and deep inequities persist, leading to stark racial differences in maternal mortality ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...

Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. In some regions, employers ...

In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. 1 Americans ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

Maternal morbidity encompasses physical and psychological conditions resulting from, or aggravated by, pregnancy. These conditions do not necessarily lead to death, but they can have a negative impact ...