“Americans spend too much on health care.” “We have worse health outcomes than our European counterparts.” Talking points such as these helped drive President Obama’s controversial and sweeping health care reform into law two years ago. But are they accurate?

The OECD has undertaken a statistical analysis of the determinants of health and the relative efficiency of the health care systems of OECD member countries.

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....

Thisbook shows that it is time to rethink conventional wisdom regarding consumption of pharmaceuticals.

This volume contradicts the commonly-held belief that, among rich countries, the marginal return from pharmaceutical consumption is negligible.

Given the extremely high research and development costs and the lack of a guaranteed return on that investment, questions have arisen in recent years about the value of pharmaceutical innovation.

A new AEI study shows that health-care consumption clearly matters when it comes to improving health--but the type of consumption matters even more.

American hospitals have undergone substantial changes in the last quarter-century due to changes in medical technology, changes in payment policies by Medicare and other third-party payers, and new forms of competition from outpatient care and specialty hospitals. Still, the future of the hospital sector is a major issue in all...