This brief provides an overview of the current state of freestanding birth center care in the U.S. using available data.

Eighty-five percent of all U.S. health care spending goes toward managing chronic diseases connected to poor diet and nutrition. Yet most doctors receive little to no meaningful training in nutrition.

Insurers increased premiums by more than 20 percent; the average “benchmark” premium before tax credits jumped from $497 per ...

Compared to people in many other high-income nations, Americans are the most likely to have problems paying for their medical care.1 Unlike these countries, the United States doesn’t have universal ...

Two of five Americans — 42 percent — know someone who has died of a drug overdose.1 Between 2019 and 2024, nearly half a million Americans died of a drug overdose, including three years of over ...

Over the past five years, a growing number of states have enacted laws to reduce the financial harm from medical debt, which affects an estimated three in 10 U.S. adults.1 For example, 14 states fully ...

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 ...

“[I’m excited about] the potential of AI, because . . . with the downside also comes the upside.” Primary care clinicians spend an increasing amount of time on administrative tasks, meaning less time ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

Disparities in health and health care between racial and ethnic groups do not exist in the abstract. In every U.S. state, differences in access to care, quality of care, or outcomes of care affect ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Federal policy changes that decrease ...

Primary care is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of the health care system. 1 It also has been consistently associated with improved life expectancy and ...