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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How Do People Make Choices Among Marketplace Plans?

The majority of people shopping in the Marketplace, particularly those with low incomes, chose silver plans to take advantage of low premiums.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access
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Estimating the Cost and Effects of Adding a Dental Benefit to Medicare Part B

A congressional proposal to expand Medicare Part B to include coverage for dental services would reduce consumer out-of-pocket spending by 80 percent.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access
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Risk of Using Credit Cards to Pay Medical Bills

Adults who accumulate past-due medical debt are using credit cards to pay off their debt more frequently, leaving them susceptible to late fees, high interest rates, and increased risk of damage to their credit.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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Featured Initiatives

RWJF funds many initiatives in support of our vision for a Culture of Health. 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, journalists, and other advocates to better understand individual and small group markets who are compliant with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in all 50 states.

Current Grant Opportunities

We realize that building a Culture of Health will take unprecedented collaboration and a deeper understanding of where barriers exist and how to overcome them.

We have previously funded opportunities in this area of focus with the goal to strengthen and advance health equity, and we have more work to do.

Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity

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Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health

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