Strategy for Improving Health Care for Uninsured, Low-income, And Minorities in the US

A new set of strategies released by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System could dramatically improve how the U.S. health care system serves vulnerable populations—those in the U.S. who are uninsured, low-income, or...

Three Quarters of Those Who have Lost Jobs And Health Insurance are Skipping Needed Health Care

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report....

Health Reform to Make Health Insurance Affordable for Nearly All Families

Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The report finds that new subsidies available through health...

18.3 Million Baby Boomers Could Benefit From the Affordable Care Act

18.3 million men and women ages 50 to 64 stand to benefit from provisions in the Affordable Care Act that expand access to affordable health insurance, assure that all health insurance provides a standard comprehensive benefit, prevent insurers from denying...

U.K. Government Moves to Bring Free Personal Care At Home to Those with the Highest Needs Regardless of Their Means

The Bill that will help individuals with the highest care needs remain independent for longer, was introduced in the British Parliament today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham. The Personal Care at Home Bill will help around 400,000 people with the highest...

Inconvenient Truths About Health Care As Industry

As I continue to argue that one of the most significant impediments to serious health care reform has been the efforts of a “consciousness industry” to induce a general acceptance of the phrase “health care industry” and thus...

How the United States has Perverted the Concept of Health Care

Apparently, Eyal Press, one of the contributors to The Notion on the Web site for The Nation, had to go to Europe to grasp the extent to which the American concept of health care has gone fubar: I’ve just come back from Europe, where citizens...