A US citizen spends €12,627 (€14,669) on annual medical care compared with €6,249 ($7,259) in France. MillaF/Shuttetstock France’s vision of universal healthcare and America’s health insurance premium ...

Two moments in 2025 revealed how vulnerable the U.S. health care system has become. The first was quiet but consequential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised parts of its ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

In the first article of this series, we explored a simple but powerful idea: Health care behaves not like a machine, but like ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

A common thread in efforts to improve the system is to become more patient-centered, as emphasized in the landmark Institute of Medicine Report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” nearly 25 years ago. To ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

A nurse performs a test on a Department of Veteran Affairs patient at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Oct. 24, 2025. (Julie M. Lucas/U.S. Navy) The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a massive ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new report by the Commonwealth Fund has revealed the states with the best and worst health care systems, based on 50 ...

Healthcare in the United States of America concept: A stethoscope on a 3d map of the US overlayed by the US flag. Healthcare in the United States of America concept: A stethoscope on a 3d map of the ...