Fraud and abuse in America's health care system costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year--more than enough to pay for high quality private health insurance for every uninsured American.

President Barack Obama and key congressional Democrats want a better deal on prescription drugs sold to seniors. But if they get it, seniors will pay billions of dollars more for their medicines.

At this AEI event, experts will discuss the future of the CFPA bill in the House and Senate and whether it has the potential to effectively reform the financial system.

House Republicans have broken the hugely successful spectrum auction authorization first effected in 1993 and also delayed for many years any possibility that digital broadcast spectrum that is almost entirely unused can be repurposed to serve the growing demands for wireless broadband.

The 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act created a streamlined path for generic drugs to reach the market after pioneer drug patents expire. The result has been the most vigorous and competitive generic drug market in the world, but the Hatch-Waxman Act does not apply to most biologics. Isolated from a variety of...

Creating a nationwide health insurance market in which individuals or groups can choose better and less expensive coverage from another state would create real competition and force private insurers in each state to create better products, improve service, and lower prices.

According to political scientist Alan Lichtman, one factor favoring President Obama's re-election is the absence of scandal in his administration. Lichtman may have spoken too soon. The reason can be capsulized in a single word: Solyndra.

Congress can and should pass something similar to Rep. Marsha Blackburn's bill, which would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.