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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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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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Medicaid Pay-for-Performance: Ongoing Challenges, New Opportunities

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. Summary: With pay-for-performance (P4P) programs ...
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Strengthening Postpartum Care and Supporting Community Birthing Can Make Maternal Health Care More Equitable

International comparisons show that the United States lags other high-income nations on core maternal health measures like the size and composition of the perinatal workforce (i.e., clinical and ...
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H.R. 1 Funding Cuts Will Overshadow Gains from the New Rural Health Transformation Program

Our colleague and coauthor, Professor Joseph Cordes, a noted economist and a budget and tax expert, passed away in February 2026. Issue: The 2025 budget reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill ...
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How Health Insurance Coverage Denials Affect Americans

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2025 Affordability Survey and Focus Groups U.S. adults with private insurance are anxious and frustrated about getting and paying for the care they need through ...