For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

Implemented wisely, Feldman argues, medical indemnities would expand consumer choice, improve program efficiency, and simplify the Medicare program.

How to Fix Medicare: Let's Pay Patients, Not PhysiciansBy Roger FeldmanAEI Press, 2008, $15.00

While many interesting and valuable points come up in Goodman and Saving's post, several assertions raise some secondary questions about the true nature of the statistical comparisons.

AEI scholars have produced a plethora of new titles this summer and fall.Here we highlight some of their new books.

Managed care wasn't conceived as a cheaper alternative to the fee-for-service indemnity insurance of the years when insurers cheerfully paid for all the health care doctors prescribed.

This article reviews Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today.

CIGNA Corporation is endowing a new research chair at the American Enterprise Institute in honor of the firm’s longtime chairman and chief executive officer, Wilson H. Taylor.