Reducing end-of-life costs will do little to curb the growth in Medicare spending overall. But end-of-life care provision should be reformed to match the values of patients.

We're about to enter a very long campaign in which where an apparently squeaky clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile, Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.

To reduce spending and more appropriately limit geographic variation in utilization among Medicare beneficiaries, the program should consider the utilization-management techniques employed in the private sector as a model.

The financial regulation bill winding its way through Congress will provide an implicit government guarantee to the nation's largest financial firms.

Product liability exemptions for FDA regulated activities could raise economic efficiency.

When it comes to taxpayer-funded bailouts, it is an especially good idea to have connections in both parties.

Customer inequality may begin to grow due to the Goldman Greed Factor because it is overwhelming the Wal-Mart Effect.

Experts in health care policy reached a consensus on a set of concrete, feasible steps that show promise for slowing spending growth and improving quality in health care.