Tom Miller's remarks on the election's impact on health care at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.

Senator Whitehouse, Ranking Member Enzi, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this very important hearing on health care delivery system reform.

Some consumers and businesses might see a little extra cash this summer as a result of the 2010 health care law. The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates will be delivered from health insurers who spent more than the law allotted on administrative expenses and profits.

The new health care law will create a policy limbo that is likely to persist for decades, increasing uncertainty, ultimately discouraging investment and scientific risk-taking.

Although government can be a positive piece of the health care puzzle by facilitating competitive markets, it is the marketplace that can provide more choices, better care, higher quality, and cost based on value.

In a single Washington Post column, Richard Cohen recycled at least half a dozen myths, fallacies, and half-truths of what sometimes passes for conventional wisdom in Washington when it comes to health care.

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

Monday's release of the annual Medicare Trustees' report seems on the face of things to be a simple exercise in dry accounting – trust fund x will run out of money in year y.  In fact, it's much more than that.  It's an annual reminder that we are...