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The 2024 election presents a stark choice for voters: build on the coverage and affordability gains achieved in the last ...

States have a part to play in helping people access and use health insurance, but affordable individual market coverage ...

More than half of Americans have health insurance plans through their employers, which often fail to include a sufficient ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

Summary: In less than 18 months, Medicare will launch a shared savings program to reward primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals that form accountable care organizations and collaborate in ...

The United States spends far more per person on its health care system compared to the rest of the world. Eighteen percent of the nation’s economy is devoted to health care — 50 percent higher than ...

Many quality improvement techniques—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated care—can improve health outcomes, but their influence is often limited by factors beyond ...