A US citizen spends €12,627 (€14,669) on annual medical care compared with €6,249 ($7,259) in France. MillaF/Shuttetstock France’s vision of universal healthcare and America’s health insurance premium ...

We are trying to fix health care as if it were complicated. In reality, health care is complex.

Two moments in 2025 revealed how vulnerable the U.S. health care system has become. The first was quiet but consequential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised parts of its ...

In the first article of this series, we explored a simple but powerful idea: Health care behaves not like a machine, but like ...

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 ...

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 ...

How integrated data ecosystems can power smarter health care. Sponsored byRoche Around the world, countries are facing the challenges of aging populations, growing rates of chronic disease, and ...

Over the past two decades, US policy makers have been concerned about steady growth in health care spending. This spending growth has contributed to federal deficits and the national debt while also ...

Wildfires are no longer rare disasters in Canada. They are now an annual reality, and 2025 has already been one of the worst on record, with 3,582 fires burning 6.2 million hectares as of July 30 — ...

Healthcare in the United States of America concept: A stethoscope on a 3d map of the US overlayed by the US flag. Healthcare in the United States of America concept: A stethoscope on a 3d map of the ...