Policymakers are exploring reforms to address shortcomings of risk adjustment that inflate Medicare Advantage payments and ...

Unfortunately, federal efforts to protect people from crippling medical debt have stalled. This means that now more than ever ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance ...

Without PRAMS, the U.S. will be less able to direct public resources toward the most effective interventions for meeting ...

ACA premiums increased by 21.7 percent on average in 2026 — far outpacing expected premium increases in the ...

As we face a new year, we are experiencing nationwide double-digit commercial premium increases that are making annual family ...

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 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

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 ...

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 ...