Controlling costs in the short run is a vital part of efforts to reform the U.S. health care system, but it should not come at the expense of future innovations.

Incorporating the effects of health into an analysis of economic disparities in America dramatically affects our understanding of wealth levels across groups--particularly across races.

Technological developments have driven the obesity plague, but technological change may also be more successful at reducing obesity than attempts to change people's eating and exercising habits have been.

At this AEI event, experts discussed whether CER is likely to reduce costs without sacrificing the quality of care.

To reduce spending and more appropriately limit geographic variation in utilization among Medicare beneficiaries, the program should consider the utilization-management techniques employed in the private sector as a model.

This paper analyses the impact of comparative effectiveness research (CER) on health and medical care spending interpreting CER to shift the demand for some treatments at the expense of others.