Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

It would be an enormous mistake to defund political science research.

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...

Obamacare may be President Obama proudest legislative achievement, but the fact is it has been a political disaster for Democrats. The unpopular law has galvanized Obama’s conservative opponents, driven away moderates and independents, and hung like an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy. A decision by the Supreme...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been the Senate's leading champion for more transparency in international federal spending. The issue is becoming critical as U.S. government expenditures on the War on Terror and on global health increase. At this event, Senator Coburn will offer three case studies: the U.S. Agency for...

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

A new initiative by Senator Tom Coburn could bringtransparency to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Americans spend over $2 trillion annually on health care, and health costs are growing at unsustainable rates. Millions of Americans are uninsured. Those with insurance are concerned that they are not getting enough value for their health care dollars. These problems are driving the rising chorus of demands for major...