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Achieving Universal Coverage

How Auto-Enrollment Can Achieve Near-Universal Coverage: Policy and Implementation Issues

Issue Briefs / Jun 10, 2021

This report argues that automatic health insurance enrollment could help achieve near-universal coverage, especially if paired with a public plan option.

Featured: Maternal Health

Female service members standing in a line during a training exercise

Advancing Health Equity

Birth Equity for Veterans and Servicemembers

blog / May 27, 2021

Ashley Esposito, who is pregnant with her first child due in July, stands outside her home in Baltimore, Maryland.

Advancing Health Equity

Maternity Care Innovations During COVID-19: Short-Term Solutions, Long-Term Potential

blog / May 06, 2021

What Will the Biden Administration Do for Women's Health?

Improving Health Care Quality

What Will the Biden Administration Do for Women’s Health?

Podcast / Apr 23, 2021

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Shell Reed plays with her children on a playscape at Cuney Homes in Houston’s Third Ward

Achieving Universal Coverage

Extend Marketplace Coverage to Insure More People in States That Have Not Expanded Medicaid

Blog / Jun 10, 2021

Achieving Universal Coverage

How Auto-Enrollment Can Achieve Near-Universal Coverage: Policy and Implementation Issues

Issue Briefs / Jun 10, 2021

Improving Health Care Quality

Making Health Care Accountable

Blog / Jun 09, 2021

Latinx/Hispanic man getting his temperature taken by a health worker

Advancing Health Equity

Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health Care Coverage and Access, 2013–2019

Issue Briefs / Jun 09, 2021

"It's Really, Truly Everywhere:" How the Opioid Crisis Worsened With COVID-19

Improving Health Care Quality

“It’s Really, Truly Everywhere”: How the Opioid Crisis Worsened with COVID-19

Podcast / Jun 04, 2021

Verenice Gonzalez waits with her daughter in a large room after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Immokalee, Florida.

Achieving Universal Coverage

How the Experience of Insuring Legal Immigrants Can Offer Insights into Insuring Eligible Residents in Medicaid Nonexpansion States

Blog / Jun 03, 2021

People wear face masks as they walk at a shopping district in Miami Beach, Florida.

Advancing Health Equity

Inequities in Health and Health Care in Black and Latinx/Hispanic Communities: 23 Charts

Publication / Jun 03, 2021

A site specialist employee with Curative holds a Pfizer sign and waves to passing cars in Haverhill, Mass., on May 6, 2021.

Improving Health Care Quality

Why Have Some States Pulled Ahead in the Race to Vaccinate Against COVID-19?

Blog / Jun 01, 2021

Doris Hölzl, pharmacist, gives FFP2 masks to a customer in a pharmacy in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as part of the free distribution of FFP2 masks to risk groups.

Controlling Health Care Costs

External Reference Pricing: The Drug-Pricing Reform America Needs?

Issue Briefs / May 27, 2021

State Action Map

Achieving Universal Coverage

What Is Your State Doing to Affect Access to Adequate Health Insurance?

Maps and Interactives / May 27, 2021

Female service members standing in a line during a training exercise

Advancing Health Equity

Birth Equity for Veterans and Servicemembers

Blog / May 27, 2021

Pharmacist and patient discussing prescription drugs

Controlling Health Care Costs

The Case for Drug-Pricing Reform — The Cost of Inaction

Blog / May 26, 2021

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