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Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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Federal Cuts to Medicaid Could End Medicaid Expansion and Affect Hospitals in Nearly Every State
In states that choose to end expanded Medicaid eligibility, fewer covered beneficiaries mean hospitals will see less revenue and lower operating margins.
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Medicaid Cuts Could Increase Maternal Mortality and Jeopardize Women’s Health
Twenty-four million women rely on Medicaid for everything from maternal health and contraception to vaccinations and cancer screenings. Using data from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 State Scorecard on ...
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State Strategies for Slowing Health Care Cost Growth in the Commercial Market
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. The American public has become ...
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What’s at Stake for Beneficiaries When Medicaid’s Continuous Enrollment Protection Winds Down?
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Given the urgency of ensuring ...
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Tackling High Health Care Prices: A Look at Four Purchaser-Led Efforts
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. In some regions, employers have ...
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‘A Monumental Effort’: How Obamacare Was Passed
With the United States in the grips of a pandemic that will surely test our health care system, it’s worth reflecting on how the law that is now deeply woven into the fabric of American health care ...
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Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison
The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...
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Stressed Out and Burned Out: The Global Primary Care Crisis
Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a ...
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CHRONIC Care Act Prompts Some Medicare Advantage Plans to Incorporate Social Services
Passed with great fanfare in 2018, the CHRONIC Care Act paved the way for Medicare Advantage plans to begin covering services like adult day care, support for family caregivers, pest control, or other ...
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Consumer Choice in U.S. Health Care: Using Insights from the Past to Inform the Way Forward
Consumer choice in health care has been advanced as a pathway for improving the quality and affordability of health care. The idea is that when people have access to full and accurate information ...
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High U.S. Health Care Spending: Where Is It All Going?
The United States spends twice as much per person on health as the average of peer nations. 1 A number of studies have concluded that high prices are a major driver of this “excess” spending. 2 A ...