As co-authors of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America,we strongly recommend that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 should be repealed and replaced as soon as possible.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

Why do some employers decide to self-insure for their health insurance plans while others do not? Are they influenced by the fact that state laws prohibit managed care plans from restricting the employee's choice of provider? What effect would congressional or court-ordered changes to the federal law ERISA have on...

Demographic, economic, and political forces have placed unprecedented demands on Medicare that cannot be met without major program reform. Policies are needed to change the fundamental incentives that drive provider and patient behavior in Medicare--and ultimately the entire health sector.

The Obama administration envisions accountable care organizations (ACOs) as the drivers of health care innovation, but such innovation has historically come from entrepreneurs in the private sector.

Medicare should use competitive pricing to set the government contribution to the traditional fee-for-service Medicare plan and private Medicare Advantage plans.

We should reduce Social Security benefits for middle- and high-income earners to encourage more working and saving—and free up the government to focus on the daunting challenges of Medicare and Medicaid.