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 entrepreneur and process methods—two ways of dealing with the problems created by a business segregated into extreme phenotypes.

The ability to make cost-effective exploratory efforts is a powerful enabler of innovation. Unfortunately, drug development is far less conducive to this sort of exploration.

Old weights and measures have lasted in America because they grew from the free transactions between people.

The presidential candidates have a different set of goals and motives than their party's Members of Congress, and their comments, designed to further their own interests, get a lot of attention and shape the narrative and agenda.

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., reviews Michael Willrich's "Pox:An American History". The book chronicles the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service through governmental intrusion during the historical epidemic of 1898-1903.

This book focuses on the process of competition in our private health insurance market and its effects on the cost of care and access to insurance coverage.

Many liberals predicted that the financial crisis would increase Americans' confidence in Big Government. That has not happened.