This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...

It is long past time to put aside the incendiary claim that racism plays a meaningful role in the health status of African-Americans.

Are doctors prejudiced?

Cigarette smoke may not be an equal opportunity carcinogen.

The "biased-doctor" model is a woeful misimpression of reality, but one that has become a staple of the "health disparities" campaign.

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.