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How Expanding the Role of Midwives in U.S. Health Care Could Help Address the Maternal Health Crisis


By P. Mimi Niles, Laurie Zephyrin
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A Proposed Public Option Plan to Increase Competition and Lower Health Insurance Premiums in California


By Richard M. Scheffler, Stephen M. Shortell
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Realizing the Potential of Accountable Care in Medicaid


By Meredith B. Rosenthal, Shehnaz Alidina, Hardy Ding, Amit Kumar
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How Primary Care Physicians Experience Telehealth: An International Comparison


By Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, Reginald D. Williams II
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The First COVID Wave: Comparing Experiences of Adults Age 50 and Older in the U.S. and Europe


By Thomas Barnay, Éric Defebvre
Della Young, a kidney transplant patient with lupus, stands at her home in McDonough, Ga., on Oct. 26, 2021. Young lost Medicaid coverage when she moved from New York to Georgia, which is one of 11 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid coverage to 138% of the poverty level. Those nonexpansion states have lower rates of insurance coverage and health care access overall, with larger disparities between racial/ethnic groups, than expansion states. Photo: Nicole Craine/New York Times via Redux

Inequities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access for Black and Hispanic Adults


By Jesse C. Baumgartner, Sara R. Collins, David C. Radley
Johanna Muschel, 94, sits at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund senior citizens’ home in Neuruppin, Germany, on June 3, 2021. German residents are automatically enrolled in long-term care insurance as a part of general health insurance, which is financed through a payroll tax with employers paying half. In the U.S., despite the widespread need for long-term care, there’s no national program to cover its costs. Photo: Fabian Sommer/Picture Alliance via Getty Images

U.S. and Global Approaches to Financing Long-Term Care: Understanding the Patchwork


By Celli Horstman, Evan D. Gumas, Gretchen Jacobson
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives on the first day of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2023. With political control now divided between the House and Senate, the long-simmering issue of ERISA preemption reform has potential to receive bipartisan support in Congress. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Reforming ERISA to Help States Control Health Care Costs


By Elizabeth Y. McCuskey
A doctor and nurses tend to a patient at University Hospital Leipzig on Nov. 18, 2021, in Leipzig, Germany. Germany spends less on health care per capita than the U.S., yet life expectancy at birth is nearly four years higher. Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes


By Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, Reginald D. Williams II

Are Medicaid Patients Seen in Office-Based Practices Getting High-Quality Primary Care?


By Dong Ding, Sherry A. Glied