Enhancing health care for racial and ethnic minorities must include creative solutions.

A true public health solution to inadequate care--one that seeks to maximize the health of all Americans--would more properly target all underserved populations, irrespective of group membership.

A key government panel voted this month to whack what Medicare pays most doctors to treat patients. It's an important step on the path to ObamaCare--because the only way to make European-style health entitlements work in America is to pay US doctors lower European wages.

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.

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...

Atrue public health solution to inadequate care would focus resources on improving the quality of care and self-care regardless of race.

In an era of national health care reform, this volume is an invaluable resource for policymakers tasked with crafting policies that balance the distinct needs of taxpayers, providers, and the poor.

Panelists examined the Medicaid program, how it functions, how it ought to be reformed, and how reform legislation might be enacted.