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HEALTH SYSTEMS

Access to quality healthcare is essential to everyone's ability to achieve and maintain good health—and is not possible without affordable, quality health insurance coverage. Removing barriers to accessing quality healthcare is crucial to advancing health equity. 

RWJF funds research and programs to identify key gaps in healthcare coverage, access, and equity.

Related News and Insights

Read expert perspectives and the latest research from RWJF to explore the opportunities and complexities of this topic.

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Three Lessons for Advancing Equity in Challenging Times

We must preserve the progress those before us achieved and stand firm in our belief that health should not be a privilege for some, but a right for all.

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Work Requirements

A library of research and perspectives on work requirements.

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Marketplace Pulse: What if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire in 2026?

Marketplace enrollees will have to choose between record premium increases or less coverage if enhanced premium tax credits expire in 2026.

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Featured Initiatives

RWJF funds many initiatives to create opportunities that improve health equity. For this focus area, these initiatives were selected to demonstrate grantmaking that is helping us achieve the greatest impact.  

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State Health Access Data Assistance Center

This is an RWJF program that helps states monitor and understand trends in rates of health insurance coverage and access to care.

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State Health and Value Strategies

This is an RWJF-supported program designed to assist state officials and agencies in their efforts to transform their health care systems to be affordable, equitable and innovative.

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HIX Compare

The HIX Compare is a health coverage data exchange that is widely used by researchers, industry and government specialists, and other advocates to better understand individual and small group markets who are compliant with the ACA.