Forcing consumers to buy today's health insurance may benefit insurance companies, health-care providers and other special interests, but it is not good public policy.

Will Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), made possible by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, bring about a revolution in the health insurance market? Will they lower the cost of health insurance and help to reduce the number of people without coverage?

While...

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) have proven to be one of the most controversial provisions of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Will HSAs blaze a trail to a more efficient health care system? Will they disrupt existing employer-sponsored insurance? Will they prove popular with health insurers, employers, and individual consumers?...

Health savings accounts (HSAs), which were created by the Medicare legislation recently passed by Congress, allow individuals to save for their future health care needs on a tax-preferred basis. HSAs are available to anyone who purchases high-deductible health insurance, and employers may also make tax-free contributions. Will HSAs become an...

AEI resident fellow JD Kleinke, an expert on health care business strategy and entrepreneurship offers a fresh perspective on the recent fracas over insurance mandates to cover contraception.

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.

New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded that there's an extra 13 auto accident deaths attributable to Income Tax Day (i.e., generally April 15, but which falls on April 17 this year). This is a drop in the bucket compared to the actual carnage that might be reasonably attributed to paying taxes in America.