The political case for an individual insurance mandate is built on false hopes, empty illusions, and larger agendas.
The strong association between educational attainment and health is one more reason to empower Americans, not Washington, with greater ownership of their health care.
The president's opening offer of healthcare at a teaser rate fails to deliver what we actually need, value, and can afford.
Several elements of the health reform plans moving proposed by the White House and moving through Congress would be detrimental to patients.
Vigorous market competition for self-paying consumers may lead to more effective self-regulation and better health care options.
In his plan to save America from its health care crisis, Ezekiel Emanuel provides a number of nuanced findings and provocative thoughts, but the wholeis less than the sum of its parts.
A new study continues to rain on the political parade of claims that the uncompensated care costs of the uninsured are largely recycled into higher private insurance premiums.
Thomas P. Miller explainstrends in the number of Americans without health insurance.
Until we deal with Medicare's fundamental problems, we need incremental action on many fronts to get better results for the money we will continue to spend in the traditional Medicare program.
Arecent study on health care disparities provides the latest comprehensive summary of what can be measured, if not a practical guide to what we could, or should, do about it.
Health inequalities are best resolved by pluralistic social processes that facilitate, but do not mandate, more effective choices and trade-offs.
A successful health care plan will have to provide consumers with realistic means of obtaining the services they need, not necessarily those they want.
The American household is better off financially than you may think, especially given the media frenzy over rising consumer debt.
A successful health care plan will have to provide consumers with realistic means of obtaining the services they need, not necessarily those they want.
Scholarsassess the Medicare Advantage plans, howthey differ from traditional Medicare, how well they meet beneficiaries' needs, and how they affect competition.
Greater transparency in health-care financing and more skepticism regarding the purported rationales for hidden cross-subsidies and regulatory protections are sorely overdue.
Yogi Berra might say regarding a typical emergency room today, "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
Scholars from AEI and elsewhere answer key questions about Medicare drug coverage and government controls.
The 110th Congress may redirect resources toward an even more expanded role for political decision-making in health-care markets.
How can the health-care system best be reformed to benefit consumers and providers alike?
The Massachusetts health reform plan has generated more favorable press plaudits and political projections than its shaky foundations merit.
Thomas P. Miller reviews Porter and Teisberg's Redefining Health Care.
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