The Department of Veterans Affairs will slash the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realign policy ...

AHA's 2026 Workforce Scan highlights six pressures that will define workforce strategy in the coming years: financial stress that limits flexibility; demographic shifts that increase demand; rapid ...

Last month's suspected ransomware attack on a major health technology company has sent the health care system reeling — costing providers an estimated $100 million daily as payment disruptions ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation about the state of the U.S. health system as we close out 2025 with no deal in Congress to extend Obamacare. subsidies.

Berwick, MD, a pediatrician, is the former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and President Emeritus at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Williams, ScD, an epidemiologist, ...

Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. It shouldn’t have taken a tragedy to launch a national conversation about our broken healthcare system and the pain it causes. But the question now ...

Coming off the deadly pandemic, health care has taken center stage as a global issue. While the U.S. is facing health care struggles that include increased maternal mortality and lower life expectancy ...

High pharmaceutical spending is due to both the prices of drugs and utilization. United States healthcare spending increased by 7.5% in 2023* to $4.9 trillion, which is 17.6% of the gross domestic ...

Among ten peer nations, Americans live the shortest lives and are the least healthy, despite the United States spending the most on healthcare, according to a recent Commonwealth Fund study. The U.S.

A combined 70% percent of Americans have a negative outlook on the nation’s health care system as Congress remains in ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.