May 24, 2000 - Casting a shadow on the popular image of young adults in their twenties enjoying unlimited opportunity in a booming economy, a new report reveals that 12 million are vulnerable to the catastrophic expense of serious illness or injury because they do not have health insurance.
August 1, 2005 - Achieving a desirable, workable national health information network (NHIN) will cost $156 billion over five years in capital investment and $48 billion in annual operating costs, according to a new Commonwealth Fund–supported study published in the August 2nd issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
February 1, 2007 - While it is encouraging that President Bush made health care a theme of this year's State of the Union address, his proposal to offer tax deductions to those who buy insurance would do little to cover the nation's nearly 47 million uninsured.
December 10, 2000 - The problem of nearly 43 million Americans without health insurance can be virtually eliminated in a single generation by building on the current system, says Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis.
May 2, 2008 - Health insurance coverage and unpaid health care for full-time workers and their family members without employer coverage costs the U.S. public $45 billion a year, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund released today.
November 12, 2003 - Nearly two of five (38%) Americans under age 65, and more than two-thirds (68%) of those with low incomes, had no health insurance at some point during 1996-1999, according to a new analysis for The Commonwealth Fund of a survey that tracks coverage over time.
July 21, 2008 - Adequate financing for long-term care, improving the quality of long term care services, and developing an adequate, skilled workforce are some of the urgent challenges facing long-term care in the future, say four of five respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey.
December 10, 2004 - A new report from The Commonwealth Fund analyzes how private Medicare Advantage plans used increased funding enacted as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
March 13, 2002 - African Americans are less likely than whites to receive recommended clinical care in four key quality areas, according to a new study of Medicare managed care enrollees.
December 15, 2008 - Despite rapid growth of retail clinics, only a tiny fraction of American families in 2007 had ever used the in-store clinics, typically located in pharmacies, supermarkets and big-box retailers, according to a national study released today by the Commonwealth Fund and conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
July 21, 2000 - Americans ages 50 to 70—those nearing the age of Medicare eligibility and those who recently enrolled in the program—place high value on Medicare, according to a study released today by The Commonwealth Fund.
May 14, 1999 - A comprehensive new Commonwealth Fund report of minority Americans' health care experiences paints a stark picture of the health status of and health care received by racial and ethnic minority groups.
February 22, 2006 - New research published in the March American Journal of Public Health shows how health care providers' ability to effectively address disparities in health care could be enhanced by changing the way they collect information about their patients' race and ethnicity.
May 6, 2005 - Forty years after its creation, the federal Medicare program has succeeded in ensuring access to needed care and improving the provision of preventive services to millions of elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and Medicare patients are more satisfied with their care than privately insured adults.