Critical access hospitals have been targeted for budgets cuts, but some people worry about destabilization of health care, explains Jenny Gold.

Peter Orszag predicts more companies will begin offering workers fixed contributions that they can use to purchase health insurance plans for themselves.

Peter Waldman claims that hospice care has become a growth industry.

Rich Morin examines the challenges faced by U.S. veterans who have been injured while serving in the military, based off survey results from 1,835 male and female veterans.

Yanzhong Huang argues that the supposedly universal health coverage in China actually disguises the low level of benefits most people receive.

Isobel Coleman argues that increased access to voluntary family planning is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve health and reduce poverty.

Chris Sweeney raises the questions whether low tech SMS programs used by nonprofits like Medic Mobil could revolutionize global health.

For the past three years, the Global Health program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking news reports to produce an interactive map plotting global outbreaks of diseases that are easily prevented by inexpensive and effective vaccines.

Investment in maternal health in Afghanistan provides a cost-effective way to promote strategic U.S. foreign policy objectives including reducing maternal and child mortality, improving public health, empowering women, and fostering economic stability, and therefore, as part of a responsible drawdown in Afghanistan the U.S. government continue its commitments to training midwives and improving other maternal health programs to expand the advances made in women’s health since 2001.

Peter Orszag explains how federal incentives are bringing the digital revolution to U.S. health care.

Isobel Coleman and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon say the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan places maternal health programs for Afghan women in jeopardy.

The United States' fiscal future depends on whether the country can limit health-care costs.

Wendell Potter of iWatch News discusses how a McKinsey report unleashed a "firestorm" among Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance.

In a New York Times opinion editorial, Paul Krugman explains that Medicare is counter-intutively money-saving.

In a break from the politics of health care reform, McKinsey Quarterly predicts that recent legislation will lead to a significant shift away from employer-provided health insurance among lower-income workers.

Peter Orszag questions whether the Ryan plan's consumer-directed approach to Medicare reform can follow through on its promise to reduce total health spending.

In 2014 "mini-meds" or health care policies that feature high deductibles, modest benefits and low annual caps on medical coverage will be banned. Wendell Potter analyzes how many large insurance companies are securing wavers  to continue providing the heavily contested, but highly profitable policies.

Homi Kharas argues that global food inflation is a result of increasing oil prices and a lack of sustained agricultural investment, not speculators or inept governments.

Bryan Walsh argues that a combination of bad weather, economic growth, and biofuel production created record high food prices.

A broad-sweeping look at international efforts to improve public health. This is part of the Global Governance Monitor, an interactive feature tracking multilateral approaches to several global challenges.