If incomes don’t keep pace with the increase in health care costs, paying for employer coverage could consume increasingly higher shares of people’s incomes.

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

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

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 ...

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 U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...

Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...

To help people afford plans sold in the health insurance marketplaces, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also sometimes called Obamacare) provides low- and middle-income individuals with premium tax ...

Hospitals across the United States rely on dashboards to detect subtle changes in performance, including shifts in patient satisfaction ratings, infection rates, and insurance claim denials. Designed ...

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. Employer-sponsored health ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

Medicaid is the largest public insurer in the United States, offering more than 81 million people with low incomes — including adults, children, and people with disabilities — access to health care.