In 2017, the Commonwealth Fund updated several of its signature reports, including Mirror, Mirror: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care; Aiming Higher: Results from the Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Health System Performance; and its companion U.S. Health System Data Center; and our profiles of international health systems. These classics continued to inform key stakeholders on how the U.S. health system compares to its peer nations and how state health systems compare to their neighbors’.
However, much of the year was dominated by publications that detailed the potential impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal-and-replace proposals on Americans and their health care. The following were the 10 most-read pieces of Commonwealth Fund content in 2017: