This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

If a narco-state or violent crackdown emerges in Venezuela, the White House will no longer be able to avert its attention from the mess or to ‘lead from behind.'

ObamaCare attempts to tightly control the use of medical services by exerting more leverage over doctors, which will kill off private-practice medicine.

Mark Zuckerberg probably never dreamed when he invented Facebook to connect college students that it would someday save a life.

Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden have defined the policy parameters that could be the basis for real Medicare reform in 2013.

The rules that define legitimate behavior by specialty hospitals will play a decisive role in determining whether they become primarily instruments of high profits.

Our research shows that competitive bidding—a key feature of the Wyden-Ryan plan—could save Medicare $339 billion over ten years while maintaining basic benefits and without raising taxes. Crucially, the elderly would not be exposed to the risk of higher health care costs, as in approaches that would set fixed voucher payments toward the purchase of medical insurance.