Advocates of interstate competition and choice in health insurance contend that state-level mandates for particular benefits, providers, and types of coverage, as well as other regulations, distort prices, increase health care costs, and reduce access to affordable insurance. Several members of Congress and at least one presidential candidate have proposed...

Medicare spending is on autopilot, and it is coming in for a crash landing. Costs are projected to double to $900 billion over the next decade, and there is increasing evidence that Medicare does not provide good value for the money spent--paying too much or too little for necessary services,...

Who really pays for costs of employee health benefits that rise faster than labor productivity?

Do consumers use less health care and buy less health insurance when prices increase? If so, market-based reforms can be used to slow the growth of health costs and expand access by making health insurance less costly. If not, we cannot rely on the price system to accomplish these objectives....

The U.S. health system is recognized as the world's leader in clinical innovation, yet millions of Americans do not have health insurance, reducing their access to those life-enhancing and life-saving treatments. AEI has invited twenty academic experts from around the country as well as members of the...

This book studies the economy theory and empirical evidence of differential pricing in health care.