A technician performs a medical test on a patient.
A technician performs a medical test on a patient.

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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Among the services available at The Free Clinics in Hendersonville NC is a pharmacy where patients can pick up their prescriptions.

Household Spending on Premiums Would Surge if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire

Spending on healthcare premiums will skyrocket for millions of people if Congress allows the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits to expire.

1-min read

Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
Brief
Patients without insurance get assistance, Hidalgo Medical Services-Bayard Community Health Center, Bayard, New Mexico. Project ECHO

High-Risk Pools in the Individual Health Insurance Market

RWJF senior policy adviser Katherine Hempstead finds that high-risk pools are unlikely to solve any insurance problems and may well create some new ones.

9-min read

Healthcare Coverage and Access
Statement
Miss.. v. Becerra Statement

RWJF Statement on "Friend of the Court" Filing in Mississippi v. Becerra

RWJF submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in support of the U.S. government’s position in the case Mississippi v. Becerra.

1-min read

Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law Structural Racism
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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.