President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

President Obama says that his health plan's popularity will grow once its provisions start being implemented. But peculiar rules tucked into the legislation are likely to make the entire scheme even more disliked as its implementation approaches.

The national health insurance exchange will eventually become a more contested battleground in this fall's health care debate.

In the current environment of intense global competition, reinforcing the stability of the financial system and ensuring continuing incentives to innovate are important in the long run.

Health care policy and health care reform are back in the news in a big way. The Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul. The Obama administration has just released guidelines for the operation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are the backbone of the law.

In one of the most interesting discussions at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito asked what the fallback position would be for the rest of the Affordable Care Act if the mandate were declared unconstitutional. He then referred to the amicus brief filed by AEI experts, which contends Title I of the law has to go.

Regardless of whether proposed health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act are ever implemented successfully, consumers and employers need better tools to compare the relative cost and quality of the health care they are likely to receive under different plan options.

The SEC should eliminate the "trade-through" rule altogether, not extend it to Nasdaq markets.