For the second year in a row, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has advanced a comprehensive budget plan that would restructure Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the big-spending portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and ultimately resolve the fiscal crisis facing this country. 

The State Children"s Health Insurance Program debate presages a broader fight over how to achieve "universal" insurance coverage.

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) pays a part of the cost of insurance coverage for millions of low-income children who are not eligible for Medicaid. Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill is promoting a substantial expansion in the scope and funding for the program, while the White House maintains...

Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not be enough, for a simple reason: Although Obamacare would worsen many of the problems with our system of health-care financing, that system clearly does call out for serious reform.

Americans should demand steering wheels.

The conventional ways of cataloguing and reporting health spending significantly understate the government share of health spending.

The Republican presidential debate Thursday night sponsored by Fox News and Google gave primary voters and caucusgoers at least one good reason to reject every candidate on the stage. The interesting question now is whether someone else will enter the race.

Based on our reading of the evidence, the Supplemental Security Income-disabled children program has increasingly become a more general welfare program that in large part targets a population of able-bodied single mothers that overlaps with the TANF population.