This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...

In Exhibit 2, we measure spending as a percentage of household income rather than dollars (see Appendix 2 for further discussion of this metric). People in the highest quintile of spending as a ...

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The Australian–American Health Policy Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals—academics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision-makers in ...

Causes of Coverage Gaps More than 60 percent of uninsured people are eligible for coverage with some type of subsidy (Exhibit 2). 10 Some enrollment barriers for eligible individuals are policy-driven ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

During the pandemic, rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems skyrocketed among young people in the United States. Perhaps the most distressing report: nearly 20 percent of high ...

In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. 1 Americans ...