This updated second edition details a better approach to health care, offering fundamental reform alternatives centering on tax changes, insurance market changes, and redesigning Medicare and Medicaid.

The new health care law will likely generate more cost shifting--the opposite of what its supporters would have us believe.

America's financial crisis, deep recession and anemic recovery have largely been driven by economic policies that have deviated from proven fact-based principles.

Health care's critical problem, rising costs, would be solved with more competition and greater individual control over health spending.

To persuade the American people to support his health reform agenda, the president has made two simple promises: First, his plan will benefit everyone who already has health insurance; Second, his plan will not add to the nation's yawning budget deficit.

Subsidizing individuals with high expected health costs is an effective way to increase the private insurance coverage of other high-cost individuals.

The current tax plan will expire in 2010 andmay lead to a drastic increase in taxes.

Mitt Romney's health careproposals, which rely on free markets and federalism, will go a long way to fixing ournation'shealth carewoes.