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What Texas Can Teach Us About the Crisis in Primary Care

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...
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Beyond Maternal Mortality: How Severe Morbidity Reveals Policy Gaps in Maternal Care

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...
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The Case for Integrated Primary Care Across 10 Countries

Findings from the 2025 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey Primary care touches almost every aspect of our health. Beyond delivering essential preventive services — such as annual ...
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Sara R. Collins

Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar for the Expanding Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance programs at the Commonwealth Fund. An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s ...
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Massachusetts Health Care Reform--On Second Anniversary of Passage, What Progress Has Been Made?

Please take a moment to answer this six-question survey to help us improve the States in Action newsletter. We appreciate and welcome your feedback. Massachusetts' passage of health care reform ...
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2013–14 Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship

The Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals—academics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision-makers in ...
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Lower-Income Kids Are at Higher Risk of Going Unvaccinated

Routine childhood vaccinations have prevented an estimated 500 million illnesses and more than 1 million deaths in the past 30 years; they remain one of our most effective interventions for protecting ...
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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care

People’s health also varies markedly across and within states, as does access to health services and overall quality of care. 5 Large racial and ethnic health inequities, driven by factors both inside ...
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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2026

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...
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Closing Health Coverage Gaps: The Impact of Enrollment and Retention Policies

Causes of Coverage Gaps More than 60 percent of uninsured people are eligible for coverage with some type of subsidy (Exhibit 2). 10 Some enrollment barriers for eligible individuals are policy-driven ...
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Filling Gaps in Access to Mental Health Treatment for Teens and Young Adults

During the pandemic, rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems skyrocketed among young people in the United States. Perhaps the most distressing report: nearly 20 percent of high ...