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The U.S. health system is a mix of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit insurers and health care providers. The federal government provides funding for the national Medicare program for adults 65 and older and some people with disabilities, as well as for various programs for veterans and low-income people, including Medicaid and the ...
In this brief, we assess the current state of the U.S. health system using dozens of data points on costs, outcomes, and quality of and access to care from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker and the accompanying Health System Dashboard.
Learn about the cross-national comparisons of health care systems of U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use to other high-income countries.
The U.S. healthcare system has been the subject of significant political debate and reform efforts, particularly in the areas of healthcare costs, insurance coverage, and the quality of care. Legislation such as the Affordable Care Act of 2010 has sought to address some of these issues, though challenges remain.
U.S. Health Care Coverage and Spending. In 2022, the United States had an estimated population of 328 million individuals. Most of those individuals had private health insurance or were covered under a federal program (such as Medicare or Medicaid). About 8.0% of the U.S. population was uninsured.
The United States does not have a health system — it has multiple systems, with no coherence. If you are an armed services veteran, you have access to a comprehensive, centrally...
The Covid-19 pandemic is the single most important health event of the past 100 years, and as such has enormous implications for our health care system. Most significantly, it highlights the importance of universal, non-discriminatory health insurance coverage in the United States.
This analysis of the USA's health system by the European Observatory reviews developments in the system’s organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system performance.
The United States has a health-care system that largely consists of private providers and private insurance, but as health care has become a larger part of the economy, a higher share of...
Health, United States provides a wide array of trends in health statistics to policymakers, public health professionals, and the public. It presents statistics in four overarching areas: health status and determinants, health care utilization, health care resources, and health expenditures and payers.