More attention should be paid to creating conditions under which competition can actually bring health care costs down--what is the point of private health plans otherwise?

What is the proper role of competition in health care markets? On July 23, 2004, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice jointly issued a major report, Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition. The report, which followed nine months of hearings held during February–October 2003,...

This book provides a point of view on the debate about health care delivery in the United States, particularly in light of the debate surrounding the Patient Protection Act.

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...

Robert B. Helms examines creating incentives for competition and lessons from the United States.

A March 10 forum at AEIaddressed the likely effects of the legal challenges on health care insurers and patients.

This bookstudies ways to reduce the costs of accident liability litigation through tort reform.

Leading experts on physician markets and health insurance consider what constitutes fair compensation to physicians under Medicare.