As enrollment in ACA-compliant coverage becomes more challenging, insurance products and arrangements that do not meet ACA standards will become more prevalent.
Primary care is facing existential challenges — from lower relative investment compared to specialty care to clinician burnout — which are particularly acute in rural communities. 1 For the more than ...
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 ...
In the United States, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher for someone giving birth in Louisiana than in California, and a child born in Mississippi is nearly ...
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 ...
Findings from the 2024 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Older Adults Health care systems around the world are struggling — and at times failing — to meet the unique needs of ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Raite, a SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Elders) counselor, assists a senior who needs help with her Medicare choices. More than half of State Health Insurance Assistance Program ...
Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...
Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...