Scott Gottlieb's testimony on the Independent Payment Advisory Board for the Committee on Ways and Means' subcommittee on health.

The PPACA's rate review and MLR provisions represent costly, bureaucratic interference with insurers' legitimate business decisions and state regulatory prerogatives. This will do little to enhance competition in health insurance markets and the availability and affordability of health insurance.

Sound retirement security policy for future retirees requires planning. Workers need to be engaged; employers need to be responsible; and policymakers must ensure that pension law, tax law, and the Social Security system operate in a manner that promotes opportunities for private saving, appropriate retirement asset management, and sustainability and predictability.

There exists a good opportunity to achieve savings in Ohio's Medicaid drug program without cutting benefits or quality of care.

Promoting the development of liberal, democratic, and market-economic institutions in Africa would create a wealthy society, and wealthy societies are known to be naturally resilient to environmental variability and disasters of all sorts.

Alan D. Viard argues that monetary policy and automatic fiscal stabilizers provide the best response to the current downturn.

The proposed increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage is a misguided approach for giving temporary aid to the states.

The first step toward restoring budget responsibility is to reform the budget decision process so that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are no longer on auto-pilot.