I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

Sub-Saharan Africa will not emerge as a global economic force unless there is a complete turnaround in its economic performance, but there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the shift to a new global development paradigm that would be far less dependent on natural resources.

Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not be enough, for a simple reason: Although Obamacare would worsen many of the problems with our system of health-care financing, that system clearly does call out for serious reform.

Although the aging of America"s population necessitates restructuring Medicare, the impasse on the commission reaffirmed the difficulty of building a political coalition in support of reform.

Alan D. Viard discusses the complications posed by the needless complexity of tax incentives, income-based phase-outs, and the alternative minimum tax.

Will the aging of the Third World have unanticipated spillover effects for the world economy? The answer is not yet clear--but it is none too early to begin asking the question.

Raising the EEA may be one of the most effective options available for improving retirement-income security and would improve the federal budget in one year nearly as much as the recent health reform bill was projected to do over ten years.

America is currently dependent on a single plant located in England for some of its most important vaccines.