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Commonwealth Fund President Joe Betancourt examines what’s at stake for Latino health in the November election.

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Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...

Summary: Finding viable strategies to ensure timely access to care for the newly insured is critical to achieving the goals of the Affordable Care Act, including those designed to improve the quality ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

Regulations are a fundamental part of health policy. Congress legislates in broad terms and agencies fill in technical details on myriad issues, from how Medicaid eligibility is determined to how ...

The United States spends more on health care than any other country, yet Americans continue to experience worse health outcomes than their international peers. What lessons can the U.S. learn from ...

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 ...

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 ...