We can create a 21st Century Medicare System of better health, better quality, and lower cost for all Americans.

Alex J. Pollock makes several considerations and suggestions on how to properly use annuities in retirement finance.

Population did not boom because people suddenly started breeding like rabbits, but rather because they finally stopped dying like flies: the "population explosion" was in reality a "health explosion," with improvements in longevity driving the entirety of this increase in human numbers.

Because of massive, sustained budget deficits by several eurozone countries, some could default on their sovereign debt obligations, or the euro itself might disintegrate, profoundly affecting the EU’s political and economic future. Very little media attention, however, is focused on a very different, but even more important, EU problem, namely its “democratic deficit.”

Economic analysis of life-saving investments has the potential to dramatically improve longevity and the quality of life, but only if the analyses on which decisions are based are done well.

The growing length of retirement for men in part reflects a decline in the number of years spent working. Is this a good thing?

The Russian Federation today faces the unprecedented dual challenge of simultaneously reversing the plummeting birth rates and skyrocketing mortality rates of the 1990s.

Incorporating the effects of health into an analysis of economic disparities in America dramatically affects our understanding of wealth levels across groups--particularly across races.