An ever-increasing number of individuals are turning to community college for their higher education. Online delivery of classes and competency-based models of higher learning should be employed and innovations from for-profit schools should be borrowed to increase the number of Americans completing their associate’s degrees.

Claims of a medical malpractice crisis stem in large part from recent increases in malpractice insurance rates, with premiums for some individual doctors set in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Most doctors, actuaries, and insurance officials attribute these costs to the lack of caps on liability awards....

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In the past three decades, a mounting wave of litigation has swept the United States, prompting Newsweek to describe America as “lawsuit hell.” Fear of litigation has reduced innovation, menaced the health-care industry, driven manufacturers out of lawsuit-prone specialties,...

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Do doctors really flee certain states, avoid high-risk specialties such as neurosurgery and obstetrics, or even forgo practicing medicine as a result of ever-growing liability concerns? Can liability reforms prevent an exodus? Empirical answers to these questions are...

Critics of the U.S. tort system often argue that the contingency fee system provides incentives for excessive litigation. Many of the criticisms and suggested policy reforms are based, however, on anecdotal evidence, rather than on systematic study of the contingency fee system. While capping contingency fees is still one...

Our research shows that competitive bidding—a key feature of the Wyden-Ryan plan—could save Medicare $339 billion over ten years while maintaining basic benefits and without raising taxes. Crucially, the elderly would not be exposed to the risk of higher health care costs, as in approaches that would set fixed voucher payments toward the purchase of medical insurance.