Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

Can the Health Impact Fund reward the makers of the best new drugs while keeping prices low? At this AEI event, experts will analyze the potential impact of this publicly funded program.

Leadership is a wonderful thing, but it is truly found when it is tested, and on that count malaria leadership has failed.

Abstract

Increased donated and subsidised medicines for malaria are saving countless lives in Africa, but there is probably increasing theft and diversion of those medicines. The impact of medicine diversion is unknown but potentially dangerous and may bolster criminal networks and increase medicine stock outs (1,2). This study demonstrates...

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

There is cause for concern regarding the viability and health of many state unemployment insurance trust funds, and federal policies to promote job creation are the single most important determinant of solvency.

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.