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

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

We have an opportunity and an obligation to seek solutions to the health-system problems that have put insurance out of reach for millions of Americans.

There are a variety of ways that the states or federal government could target abuses without adopting the president's agenda for federal control of health insurance.

The Warner and REINS proposals are excellent ideas but, at least in the area of the environment and the economy, are no substitute for reforming the underlying statutes.

The idea of a Department of Homeland Security is a compelling one, but that does not answer the question of whether the massive relocation of agencies is the best one.

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.