As Americans debate health care policy, there seems to be bipartisan agreement that reform is long overdue, but the agreement stops there.

The proposed increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage is a misguided approach for giving temporary aid to the states.

Reform of tax policy is a necessary condition for the efficient reform of our health care system.

Lost in the debate over SCHIP reauthorization is the effect that creating an open-ended entitlement will have on states' incentives to spend money that may leave poor states behind.

Scholars offer considerations for the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Scholarsassess the Medicare Advantage plans, howthey differ from traditional Medicare, how well they meet beneficiaries' needs, and how they affect competition.

Worthwhile Medicaid reforms would directfunds to the states and populations that need them most.

Scholars from AEI and elsewhere answer key questions about Medicare drug coverage and government controls.

A change in tax policy could help control the cost of medical care and improve both the quality of and access to care.

This presentation covers the impact pharmaceutical price controls have on drug research and development.

Changing the 1943 policy on the exclusion of employer-provided health insurance from taxable income wil help create a more efficient health care system.

American health spending continues its rapid increase while millions of Americans lack health insurance. For a change, we could get the consumer involved in making economic decisions.

If a company can obtain a price that covers the marginal cost of producing and marketinga drug while satisfying regulatory policies, selling the drug in a given country makes sense.

The Medicare trustees gave a strong warning in their annual report that the program faces serious financial problems that will begin to affect the federal budget this year.

This presentation aims to understand the historical and economic forces that have shapedthe U.S. health caresystem and how tax policy changes might be used to expand coverage.

Medicare is being criticized by both experts and beneficiaries for its inability to keep pace with medical technology and modern health coverage, and for its impending financial shortfalls.

The latest general report from the World Health Organization is built on the faulty foundation that health care is a special economic activity requiring intense governmental involvement.

Politicians are striving to legislate improvements in medical quality without asking why our current market arrangements have put too little emphasis on quality and consumer satisfaction.

Fewrecognize that the root cause of the poor market performance is the special tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance.

The debate over Medicare was long and bitter and without the intense push from President Johnson and the skillful handling by Wilbur Mills, it might not have passed.

The nation and Congress are currently debating the future of Medicare, a popular program subsidizing health care for the elderly.

Physician's Weekly ran this exchange between Stark and Helms.

The public policy issue today is not the value of medical education, but who should bear the burden of financing this education.