Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, ...

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 ...

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.

If we do, then food must sit at the center of health policy, not at its periphery. It must be funded, studied and delivered ...

We need to implement financial incentives and make health systems accountable for patient care to reduce costs effectively.

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, ...

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 ...

In order to restore and increase funding for affordable health care, action must be taken. Many European countries have ...

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 ...