The mission of the fund is to promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve healthcare practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.
titles from this organization

The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff
Apr 6, 2022
Publisher(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

How Would State-Based Individual Mandates Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premium Costs?
Jul 20, 2018
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

State Regulation of Coverage Options Outside of the Affordable Care Act: Limiting the Risk to the Individual Market
Mar 29, 2018
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools
Jan 1, 2018
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Using Community Partnerships to Integrate Health and Social Services for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Jan 1, 2018
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

How Medicare Could Provide Dental, Vision, and Hearing Care for Beneficiaries
Jan 1, 2018
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Following the ACA Repeal-and-Replace Effort, Where Does the U.S. Stand on Insurance Coverage? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey, March–June 2017
Sep 7, 2017
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

The State of U.S. Health Insurance in 2022: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey
Sep 29, 2022
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Are Financial Barriers Affecting the Health Care Habits of American Men: A Comparison of Health Care Use, Affordability, and Outcomes Among Men in the U.S. and Other High-Income Countries
Jul 14, 2022
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Jun 16, 2022
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

How Discrimination in Health Care Affects Older Americans, and What Health Systems and Providers Can Do
Apr 21, 2022
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Health and Health Care for Women of Reproductive Age: How the United States Compares with Other High-Income Countries
Apr 5, 2022
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance
Nov 17, 2021
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

When Costs Are a Barrier to Getting Health Care: Reports from Older Adults in the United States and Other High-Income Countries: Findings from the 2021 International Health Policy Survey of Older Adults
Oct 1, 2021
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly - Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries
Aug 4, 2021
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

As the Pandemic Eases, What Is the State of Health Care Coverage and Affordability in the U.S.? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Coverage and COVID-19 Survey, March–June 2021
Jul 16, 2021
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund

American COVID-19 Vaccine Poll
Jun 16, 2021
Publisher(s): Commonwealth Fund; African American Research Collaborative
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- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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- National Academy for State Health Policy
- National Women's Law Center
- SCAN Foundation
- Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Pershing Square Foundation
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University
- African American Research Collaborative