Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

The European Union is planning to tax all airlines that travel to and from the 27 EU nations based on the amount of carbon emissions they produce.  The tax, to be collected beginning in 2013 for prior year emissions, will be calculated based on the length of each flight. The farther the airlines travel, the heftier the tax.

Senator Whitehouse, Ranking Member Enzi, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this very important hearing on health care delivery system reform.

Congress enacted and renewed the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA) in 1992. The authors model and quantify the impact of PDUFA-I and -II on drug approval times.

The trustees report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services out Monday uses strong language to describe the uncertainty of its predictions in both the short- and long-term for the medical insurance program aimed at America's seniors.

With 48.3 million people covered by Medicare in 2011 -- and...

In a just released piece in the New England Journal of Medicine piece, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) healthcare economist and former Congressional Budget Office official Joseph Antos assesses the Wyden-Ryan Medicare reform proposal.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

Export-related jobs are a huge and important driver of the U.S. economy, and the record of the Ex-Im Bank is clear: Using private funds and with minimal exposure to taxpayers, it has been a major driver of U.S. exports and a driver of jobs and corporate profits in the United States.