Despite federal regulations designed to improve nursing homes, the state agencies responsible for overseeing nursing home care have often failed to correct problems, according to a Commonwealth Fund–supported study in the September issue of Consumer Reports. Read more »
As employers cope with rising health care costs by dropping health benefits for workers or increasing employee deductibles, working families are feeling the "squeeze," a Commonwealth Fund study finds. Read more »
While acknowledging that the United States provides some of the best medical care in the world, the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System believes that overall, the nation fails to achieve adequate value for the resources it devotes to health care. Read more »
"Congress faces a challenging dilemma in considering how much to pay physicians," Stuart Guterman, senior program director for the Fund's Program on Medicare's Future, told the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee in invited testimony at a July hearing on Medicare physician payments. Read more »
Analysis of the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey (2005) finds that many Hispanic and African American working-age adults are "disconnected" from the health care system. Read more »
Results from the first-ever comprehensive scorecard for the U.S. health care system indicate the nation falls far short of what it could achieve. Read more »
Most Americans see the need for fundamental changes in the nation's health care system, according to national survey findings released by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Read more »