If incomes don’t keep pace with the increase in health care costs, paying for employer coverage could consume increasingly higher shares of people’s incomes.

A scholarship program that trains people from rural communities is expected to lower access and affordability barriers faced by rural residents across the U.S.

With hospital financing largely tailored to urban contexts, a growing number of rural hospitals are closing their doors, leaving many rural residents without a place to go for care. Since 2005, nearly ...