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Some States Blunted the Impact of Lost Federal Marketplace Subsidies, But Efforts Will Be Hard to Sustain

Initial numbers show marketplace sign-ups down by more than 1 million people nationwide in 2026, with enrollment expected to ...
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Sharing a Workplace: How Health Systems Make Artificial Intelligence Useful to Clinicians

This issue of Transforming Care looks at how employees of health care systems are working to make AI useful while also ...
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Health Care Quality-Spending Interactive

The U.S. spends far more on health care than other wealthy nations, but that investment does not achieve better quality of care or improved health outcomes . Furthermore, both spending and quality ...
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Selected Health and System Statistics

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.
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Maternity Care Providers and Trainees Are Leaving States with Abortion Restrictions, Further Widening Gaps in Care

Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...
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Brazil’s Family Health Strategy: Using Community Health Care Workers to Provide Primary Care

Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest nation, established a Family Health Strategy in 1994, which uses community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic primary care to families at home, relay information ...
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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care

People’s health also varies markedly across and within states, as does access to health services and overall quality of care. 5 Large racial and ethnic health inequities, driven by factors both inside ...
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Maternal Mortality in the United States, 2025

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 ...
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The High Costs of Maternal Morbidity Show Why We Need Greater Investment in Maternal Health

Maternal morbidity encompasses physical and psychological conditions resulting from, or aggravated by, pregnancy. These conditions do not necessarily lead to death, but they can have a negative impact ...
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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes

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 ...
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Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...
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Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals: Anticipated Effects on Insurance Coverage, Out-of-Pocket Costs, and the Federal Deficit

HOW ARE MARKETPLACE PREMIUM CONTRIBUTIONS DETERMINED? Under current law, people with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level and no other affordable source of health ...