The latest West Health-Gallup survey is a blunt instrument that exposes what many already feel: the American health care system is breaking under the weight of private profit. Released last month, the ...

There is broad bipartisan agreement that the health-care system in the United States is broken. Our country just endured the longest government shutdown ever, and it was largely over health care.

According to CMS, America’s healthcare system is plagued by complexity, high costs, and fragmentation—placing strain on patients, providers, and our national budget. Outdated infrastructure and ...

New American Heart Association Presidential Advisory outlines contributors to and consequences of the current health care affordability crisis, proposes five guiding principles for action by lawmakers ...

Ever since the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” American healthcare has descended into chaos. Premiums have skyrocketed while insurance companies have gotten rich – all at the expense of patients.

“Our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens,” President Donald Trump said on February 13, 2025, the day his nominee to run the nation’s health agencies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. American healthcare faces a $250 billion annual "work tax" from administrative tasks like ...

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

MR. PAUL HOWARD: Today, I’m talking with Christopher J. Conover, a Scholar at Duke University’s Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise ...

This common refrain frequently appears in the comments section of social media posts, often after an update on the Trump administration’s spending, the president’s goal to build a giant triumphal arch ...

As health care systems increasingly seek solutions to the growing burden of chronic disease, a new position statement from ...