Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...

Trustworthiness, as described by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Health Justice, is a “necessary precursor to trust that is rooted in honesty and honors lived experience.” It ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Ben Zdencanovic does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A new report by the Commonwealth Fund has revealed the states with the best and worst health care systems, based on 50 different measures. Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were at ...

The US health-care system is reaching its breaking point. Individuals, families, employees, employers, and public and private health insurance funders are all spending more for health care every year, ...

Many Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills due to inadequate health insurance coverage or claim denials at the hands of private insurers. Insurers deny between 10% and 20% of health care ...

Many critics of the U.S. health care system claim the tragic murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is understandable because health insurance companies occasionally refuse to cover certain ...

The United States health care system was deemed the worst overall compared to 10 similar nations, according to analysis from a leading health research nonprofit. “Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of ...

In mid-January lawmakers from the Hawaiʻi House and Senate committees on consumer protection called in executives from HMSA and Hawaiʻi Pacific Health to explain their proposal to create a new system ...