October 30, 2007 - A City Journal article authored by David Gratzer, M.D., says the U.S. prostate cancer survival rate is 81.2 percent and the U.K. survival rate is 44.3 percent. According to abcnews.com, Gratzer has cited a seven-year-old Commonwealth Fund report as his source for the statistics. In fact, the five-year survival data cited in the City Journal article do not come from The Commonwealth Fund report, and cannot be calculated from that report.
October 18, 2007 - Health insurance reform plans that build on a mix of private and public health insurance, where costs are shared among government, employers, and enrollees would have great potential to move the system to high performance and would be the most practical to implement according to a new report released today by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.
September 11, 2007 - September 11, 2007—In metropolitan areas across the United States, blacks are more likely than whites to live in poor quality nursing homes, according to a new study in the September/October issue of Health Affairs.
August 28, 2007 - Today, the Census Bureau released the latest data on the number of Americans without health insurance: in 2006, the number of uninsured rose to 47 million, from 44.8 million in 2005. According to Fund president Karen Davis, a comprehensive national strategy and leadership are needed to ensure that all Americans have access to high-quality, safe, and efficient health care.
August 21, 2007 - The share of seniors without drug coverage dropped significantly under Medicare's new drug benefit, according to a survey of more than 16,000 seniors. However, seniors who enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan did not fare as well as those who relied on other sources of drug coverage, such as employer-sponsored coverage or benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs
August 8, 2007 - Since 2003, 16 states have enacted legislation requiring insurance companies to provide health insurance coverage to dependent young adults on their parents' health plans beyond age 18 or 19, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.
July 30, 2007 - As health care quality and patient safety concerns rise, the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey finds leaders united behind several key reform measures: more than half (56%) support the creation of a new public-private entity to coordinate quality efforts and form a national quality agenda; 95% believe that fundamental payment reform is needed; and three-fourths (73%) say that greater organization and integration of provider care is necessary for improved quality and efficiency.
July 26, 2007 - Several health reform bills before Congress could lead to significant improvements in health care quality and efficiency, but they fall short of an overarching, coordinated plan that would create a better overall health care system for the country, according to an analysis released today by the Commonwealth Fund.
July 12, 2007 - Uninsured adults ages 59-64 diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or stroke report much higher medical costs—51 percent higher compared with their insured counterparts—after becoming eligible for Medicare through age 72, according to a new Commonwealth Fund-supported study by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
June 27, 2007 - Providing minority patients a "medical home" in which they have a regular doctor or health professional who oversees and coordinates their care would help eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and promote more health care equity, says a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.
June 13, 2007 - There are large gaps in quality of care, access to care, avoidable hospitalizations and costs, equity and healthy lives among states, according to a new state scorecard from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.
May 15, 2007 - The U.S. health care system ranks last compared with five other nations on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes, in the third edition of a Commonwealth Fund report analyzing international health policy surveys.
April 26, 2007 - James R. Tallon, Jr., president of the United Hospital Fund of New York, has been elected chairman of The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working toward a high performance health system.
April 23, 2007 - As the debate over reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) heats up in Washington, a new survey of leaders in health policy and health care finds that large majorities feel the program has been successful in increasing access to health care for low income children (71%) and in reducing the rate of uninsured, low-income children (65%).
April 19, 2007 - A new Commonwealth Fund report by researchers at the National Women's Law Center finds that even women with health insurance coverage are more likely than insured men to go without needed health care because of costs.