Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) play critical roles in US child health coverage, but children frequently endure uninsured periods, and recent federal health policy changes ...

Good news is often hard to find in American health care policy. The US has the dubious distinction of being the only rich democratic country with a large uninsured population, while simultaneously ...

While Congress and President Trump debate how much the government should subsidize certain health insurance premiums, they are missing a far more important question: How can the U.S. rationalize our ...

The American health insurance system is no longer a neutral mechanism for spreading risk or paying for care. It has become a finely tuned profit machine—engineered by massive, multi-billion-dollar ...

Thirty-nine percent of large employers today offer their staff only high-deductible health plans, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health. Representing a 7 percent increase from ...

New polling has found that the majority of voters say health care in the U.S. is unaffordable and are open to a health insurance system that doesn’t tie coverage to employment. Undue Medical Debt, a ...

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Working for one of the largest health insurers in the country, Rachael Proffitt understands more than most Americans the complexities of navigating insurance red tape. So, when the 40-year-old ran ...