No, the government shouldn’t eliminate tax breaks for private universities.

AEI resident fellow JD Kleinke, an expert on health care business strategy and entrepreneurship offers a fresh perspective on the recent fracas over insurance mandates to cover contraception.

Here's a message for Obama and Buffet: Before you "ask" for more money from us taxpayers, raise the $2.2 trillion you already collect each year more fairly and spend it more wisely. Then you'll need less of our money.

For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

A new study projects that U.S. healthcare spending will rise by as much as $66 billion a year by 2030 because of obesity. That’s about 2.6 percent of current health spending. While this trend is of obvious concern (and would be good to avoid), those figures pale in comparison to the total amount of U.S. health spending that can be attributed to behavior, lifestyle, and other avoidable causes.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

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

The Medicare bill returns decision-making authority, insurance ownership and health dollars to individuals, and it will promote competitive market dynamics in healthcare, thus lowering costs.