As much as thirty percent of Medicare expenditures may be wasted according to Elliott Fisher and his colleagues at the Dartmouth Medical School. Fisher and his coauthors came to this conclusion while doing research on geographical variations in medical expenditures. They found that higher medical expenditures not only do not...

Tax credits to expand health insurance coverage are being considered by the Bush administration and several members of Congress. While there appears to be substantial interest in and bipartisan support for tax credits, their use as a means of subsidizing the purchase of health insurance presents both challenging policy tradeoffs...

For anyone involved in either the consumption or delivery of health care, or of any aspect of the politics of health care, there is little doubt that the health care delivery system is in a state of turmoil. But what is the cause of that turmoil? Are consumers, armed...