In a recent article, Duke University law professors and health-care policy researchers Clark C. Havighurst and Barak D. Richman argue that ordinary Americans with health coverage pay substantially higher premiums to support a vast enterprise that primarily benefits health-care industry interests and other higher-income consumers and taxpayers. They find “serious...

The health policy debate in the 2008 presidential campaign year needs to move beyond the well-rehearsed pattern of the past, which focused primarily on how to expand insurance coverage to more Americans and find (or hide) the amount of money needed to pay for more health care services. Expanding the...

The president should pursue reformthat encourages health insurance and preserves progressive tax treatment.