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States Are Using Creative Strategies to Help Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities Live Independently

States Are Using Creative Strategies to Help Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities Live Independently. Diane Shields ...
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Patients’ Perspectives on AI in Primary Care

Patients view the use of AI in primary care as inevitable but see opportunities for the technology to improve care and ...
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Looking to 2025: Changing Health Care, and the Need for Courage

The celebration of a new year marks an opportunity to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. At the Commonwealth Fund, we take stock of what we observed, what we learned, and how we ...
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How Primary Care Medics Can Bring Needed Health Care to Rural Americans

In rural Pennsylvania and other communities in the United States, access to primary care is deeply concerning, with a shortage of physicians, fewer hospitals and health clinics, and patients who ...
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How Small Rural Hospital Networks Are Leveling the Playing Field with Larger Health Systems

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...
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NEW INTERNATIONAL SURVEY: Older Adults in U.S. Struggle with Health Care Costs More Than Those in Other Nations

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Although nearly all older Americans ...
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State Strategies for Slowing Health Care Cost Growth in the Commercial Market

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. The American public has become ...
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States Are Planning Their Responses to H.R. 1 Cuts in Medicaid Funding — Will Enrollees Lose Benefits?

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Over the next 10 years, federal ...
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Commonwealth Fund Launches Multistate Listening and Health Care Innovation Initiative with Grant to United States of Care

Commonwealth Fund Launches Multistate Listening and Health Care Innovation Initiative with Grant to United States of Care The State Health Innovation for Transformation (SHIFT) initiative will engage ...
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Elizabeth Fowler

Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...
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Board of Directors

The Commonwealth Fund is fortunate to have a group of wise and experienced individuals serving as directors of the foundation. A diverse group on many levels, our board members offer a variety of ...