A scholarship program that trains people from rural communities is expected to lower access and affordability barriers faced by rural residents across the U.S.

Since 2005, nearly 200 rural hospitals have completely or partially closed, and over 400 — more than 20 percent of rural hospitals — are at risk of closure.

However, starting last spring, the federal government has reversed course on longstanding vaccine guidance. First, the ...

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. Texas’s new abortion law, ...

Strengthening the standards to which Medicaid managed care organizations are held would likely improve access to and delivery of high-quality postpartum care.

Despite the critical role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in preventive care and chronic disease management, PCPs lack support for their mental and physical well-being, resulting in pervasive ...

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 ...

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...

With the United States in the grips of a pandemic that will surely test our health care system, it’s worth reflecting on how the law that is now deeply woven into the fabric of American health care ...

Americans’ Health Declines and Access to Reproductive Care Shrinks, But States Have Options Deaths from preventable and treatable causes increased rapidly with the arrival of COVID-19, leading to ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...