Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and Democrat Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), have proposed an alternative entitlement spending reform plan that is striking both for its boldness and its left-right-coming-together origins. There are a number of interesting parts, but I want to focus on the three most important:

Medicare would, for the [...]

We’re 10 years into the future and you have terminal cancer. Still, all is not lost.
Doctors in other countries are reporting successful remission of your type of cancer, using a drug originally approved in the United States for some other purpose. There are several journal articles that appear to back up these claims and there [...]

For the first time in Medicare history, the Medicare Chief Actuary has called the projections in a Medicare Trustees Report “unreasonable” and “implausible” and encouraged everyone to ignore them and view instead an “Illustrative Alternative” report. The alternative opens this way:
The Trustees Report is necessarily based on current law; as a result of questions regarding [...]

Americans face a direct and historic challenge to their personal liberty and to their unique citizenship in a federal republic. Though its enactment of the massive Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), official Washington is not merely engineering a federal takeover of health care, but is also radically altering the relationships between individuals and [...]

If you listened to the campaign rhetoric during the 2008 election you could be forgiven for thinking that health reform would mainly mean insuring people who cannot afford insurance on their own; in the process there would be no tax increases or benefit cuts for the middle class; and, “If you like the plan you [...]

Why is it so difficult to control health care costs? Actually, it’s not all that hard. Name a routine test or procedure and I can probably show you somewhere in the world where you can obtain it for a very reasonable price, provided by doctors who are U.S. board-certified, or have received training in the [...]