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. The American public has ...

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. At the end of 2025, ...

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are climbing again, and data show that Black and Latinx Americans are contracting and dying at higher rates than white Americans. The reasons are complex: people of color ...

Texas is one of nearly 20 states yet to expand its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and is home to the largest number of uninsured Americans of any state in the country. For many ...

Issue: By increasing health insurance coverage, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid eligibility expansion was also expected to lessen the uncompensated care burden on hospitals. The expansion currently ...

This issue brief was adapted from the Commonwealth Fund report, Getting to the Root of High Prescription Drug Prices: Drivers and Potential Solutions. 1 The report identifies the problems and drivers ...

Issue: Despite enduring racism and the need for greater racial equity, there is limited consensus among analysts, academics, and public officials on how to assess policy for its impact on racial ...

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 ...

More people than ever rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for health insurance. 1 Millions more will become eligible for marketplace coverage after losing Medicaid as the ...

The longstanding bond between employers and health insurance dates back to World War II, when the implementation of wage controls prompted companies to seek out ways to differentiate themselves from ...

In 2017, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the U.S. was one of only two countries (along with the Dominican Republic) to ...

Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System That Addresses Ongoing and Future Health Crises, Advances Equity, and Earns Trust More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, a ...