In the latest Health Policy Outlook AEI health expert Scott Gottlieb, MD explains how a previously obscure government advisory panel now wields tremendous powers to decide which preventive health care services public and private insurance will cover.

There exists a good opportunity to achieve savings in Ohio's Medicaid drug program without cutting benefits or quality of care.

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

Tom Miller's proposals for Medicaid reform. 

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.

Over the years, therehas been arise in economic inequality, growth in the middle class, low incomes are growing, and the progressive taxes keep thewealthy payinga large share of the tax burden.

Joseph Antos' analysis of Medicare's fiscal crisis and reform options that could make the program sustatainable; a response to a request from 16 health professionals elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for public comment on Medicare reform. 

Wide-ranging, accessible, and provocative, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of American health care.