The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation headquartered in New York that funds independent research on health care issues and makes grants to promote better access to care, improved care delivery, and greater efficiency in the U.S. health care system. It also supports international learning and exchange and develops leaders in health care.www.commonwealthfund.org
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Oct 30, 2026
Joel BervellHOST
The Dose is a production of the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation dedicated to healthcare for everyone.
Joel BervellHOST
My guest on this episode of The Dose is Julie Rovner, Chief Washington Correspondent at KFF Health News, a health policy organization focused on policy research, polling, and health journalism.
Joel BervellHOST
Julie is here to share insights as we're just a few days out from midterm elections in the U.S. And one thing we know from multiple polls, concerns about health care, costs, access and quality of care are top of mind for many voters and even driving some folks to the polls in search of relief and candidates who might make a difference.
Gwen DarienGUEST
And when somebody's really looking at health and well-being, not just simply clinical care or health care, I think there are a lot of barriers to that in this current environment, sociopolitical environment.
Gwen DarienGUEST
And one of the things that I find the most heartbreaking as I look at things at Kaiser Family Foundation or Commonwealth Fund is is the extent to which their findings, is the extent to which the number of people who are terrified that they cannot, that they won't be able to afford an illness getting sick and they won't be able to afford their health care costs, is just growing and growing.
Gwen DarienGUEST
And so I...
Gwen DarienGUEST
On the one hand, I think we were making progress towards this notion of a partnership and a kind of human caring ecosystem.
Anika RashidHOST
The order emphasizes health care research that translates findings into clinical care, but it doesn't commit any new funds.
Anika RashidHOST
And finally, this week's featured graphic highlights new survey data from the Commonwealth Fund that finds the uninsured rate for working-age adults rose to 11.2 percent in July 2026, up from 8.9 percent in 2024.
Anika RashidHOST
The survey is an early warning that coverage losses are already beginning.
Anika RashidHOST
It will likely be several months before federal data confirms the trend.
David JohnsonGUEST
It ties with gas prices for consumers' top cost of living concern.
David JohnsonGUEST
Last week, the Commonwealth Fund issued a study that said the uninsured percentage of working adults has jumped to 11.2%.
David JohnsonGUEST
That's up from 8.9% in 2024, and that's only going to get higher next year as the Medicaid cuts and restrictions fully kick in.
David JohnsonGUEST
Commonwealth also found that 50% of working-age adults now delay or forego necessary care because of its cost.
George MargelisHOST
I think one of the important things to always keep in mind that we tend to forget this in Australia, that when you look at global ratings of healthcare systems, we always come up towards the top.
George MargelisHOST
The recent Commonwealth Fund report had us as number one.
George MargelisHOST
We've always been up there.
George MargelisHOST
So we have a relatively good healthcare system.
Dennis MurphyGUEST
Now, I think the biggest thing is that we have a simple goal, which is we want to make Indiana one of the healthiest states.
Dennis MurphyGUEST
I'm grateful when we first started saying that statement in 2016, Indiana ranked 44th today in the Commonwealth Fund's ranking of states.
Dennis MurphyGUEST
Indiana's 35th.
Dennis MurphyGUEST
So as much as we think we're not doing well, we're actually improving.
Darrell GrayGUEST
But I knew I had a gap in my knowledge base, and that really was around public policy and how I could translate the stories that I was seeing at the bedside into policy change or impactful change at a county, a city, a state, or beyond level.
Darrell GrayGUEST
And that's what landed me in Boston for the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, where you and I were classmates.
Darrell GrayGUEST
And even after leaving there, I knew that, you know, I wanted to go back into actually practice medicine.
Darrell GrayGUEST
So first, I wanted to be a really good doctor.
Christian BrindleHOST
It's crazy.
Christian BrindleHOST
There was a study done by the Commonwealth Fund that did a survey.
Christian BrindleHOST
I
Glen SheltonHOST
love this data.
Jonathan CohnGUEST
So, you know, it takes a little while for the really good data to come through, you know, the census data, the government figures.
Jonathan CohnGUEST
What we do have, I mean, actually, the Commonwealth Fund did just put out a week ago a study, and they think they are picking up now a rise in the number of uninsured.
Jonathan CohnGUEST
It's, you know, like a lot of these surveys, you need to be careful about reading too much into it, but it's consistent with a story that a lot of people who were on the ACA saw their premiums go up because... those extra subsidies were not renewed, decided not to get insurance.
Jonathan CohnGUEST
But I think we're also seeing a part of that, and this kind of goes back to what you were saying earlier.
Melissa Anne DuboisHOST
In rural areas, it might be the county's largest employer.
Melissa Anne DuboisHOST
Researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and George Washington University modeled what Medicaid and SNAP cuts would do to state economies.
Melissa Anne DuboisHOST
They estimated about 1.2 million jobs lost in 2029, including nearly a half a million in health care.
Melissa Anne DuboisHOST
One of the biggest line items in a hospital budget is nursing services.
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