Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration abruptly revoked the narcotics license held by the distributor Cardinal Health, preventing that firm from shipping prescription pain drugs to thousands of Florida pharmacies and hospitals. It's the latest tactic in the DEA's struggle to stem the illicit use of prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin.

All levels of government face growing pressures to restrain spending. One downside to the rapid growth in tax-financed health spending that I have documented in several prior posts is the vulnerability of the health system to measures taken to curb government spending. But the degree of such vulnerability varies dramatically across different components of the health sector.

If we are to improve health care, we need effective ways to measure how health care providers deliver care. Speakers at this conference will assess how existing physician performance measurement tools operate and how we can improve their accuracy, reliability, transparency, and usefulness. For example, both the Government Accountability Office...

It is government's fault for offering a housing finance program without making an effort to maintain underwriting standards.

While there are major partisan divides over how to permanently restructure our health care system, there is one key area where Democrats and Republicans should be working together: fighting health care fraud.

A variety of schemes combined steal as much as $100 billion a year from Medicare and Medicaid alone, and it is time to stop that epidemic.

How can more accurate and actionable information about physicians improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care?

Many of the options provided by private health care plans will not exist in a government-run health program.