One tool to mitigate health-care spending is increased cost sharing, which requires that patients pay a larger portion of the cost of a physician office visit, a hospitalization, or a prescription. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, consumer co-pays for physician visits and prescription drugs have been rising rapidly. While...

In an attempt to protect poor, uninsured and underinsured Americans from unsafe drugs, we are making sure that some go without drugs completely. It is time the law was changed.

To the detriment of all Americans, politicians are choosing to listen to the Washington policy establishment over the people on Medicaid issues.

The inexorable rise of healthcare costs has created not only a crisis waiting to happen, but also an urgent need for innovation--exactly the sort of thing for which Silicon Valley is justly famous. So where's Silicon Valley when we need it?

We should increase the availability of safe and effective generic drugs and provide a framework for people to make wider use of them.

Government reimbursement programs often create cross-subsidies and other distortions that greatly complicate the task of setting reasonable and efficient reimbursement levels.

This article is the transcript of a debate concerning health care issues.Consumers are increasingly being asked to bear more of the costs and responsibility of their health care, in a growing trend called consumer-driven health care, or CDHC.Congress gave CDHC a big boost two years ago...