In 2025, the average annual premium for family health coverage reached $26,993, an increase of $1,408 (6 percent) from the previous year. Covered workers contributed an average of 16 percent ($1,440) ...

We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

John Creighton Campbell ( [email protected]) is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Naoki Ikegami is professor and chair of the Department of Health ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Justine Mallatt ([email protected]), Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington, D.C. Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Lasanthi Fernando, Bureau of Economic Analysis. A 2023 KFF survey reported ...

Giving birth in the United States is dangerous, and even more so if you are Black or Indigenous, live in a rural area, or have a low income. Maternal deaths continue to rise, even though the vast ...

In October 2021, a Pennsylvania judge denied the property tax exemption for three hospitals owned by a Pennsylvania hospital system, claiming that operations at the hospitals in question had become ...

Devlin Hanson, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. Sarah Gillespie ([email protected]), Urban Institute. Housing First is an approach to ending homelessness that recognizes permanent housing as a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

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 ...

The primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...