Congress and the president need to reform Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security because they are no longer able to run on autopilot.

A fiscal crisis threatens to engulf the federal budget, jeopardizing the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous...

Twelve contributors focus on the two health reform proposals that have taken center stage--managed competition and global budgeting.

Tax credits to expand health insurance coverage are being considered by the Bush administration and several members of Congress. While there appears to be substantial interest in and bipartisan support for tax credits, their use as a means of subsidizing the purchase of health insurance presents both challenging policy tradeoffs...

On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act, through which psychiatric patients would be treated in small community clinics rather than in large expensive state hospitals. Though the act promised to improve conditions and save millions of dollars, it mostly added...

Panelists judged the effectiveness of the Community Mental Health Centers Act on October 31, 2003.

Our plan addresses the long-term fiscal imbalance while promoting limited government and economic growth. The plan fundamentally reforms the tax code while aggressively cutting federal spending to hold down the debt.

The federal government has yet to adopt a strategy to avoid the impending bankruptcy of the Medicare program.