American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Scott Gottlieb, MD a former senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warns that a new ruling by CMS will force people to get open-heart surgeries that might have been avoidable.

On these quite intensive days for Government and the Parliament we deem it relevant and appropriate to reflect upon the issue of competition. This word has been frequently abused and idolized as the goal of any market process instead of being considered an instrument, a process regulated for the benefit...

The new health care law will create a policy limbo that is likely to persist for decades, increasing uncertainty, ultimately discouraging investment and scientific risk-taking.

Improving healthcare will require increased focus on the gap between the clinical practice of medicine and health as it's experienced in real life.

Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.

When surgeons display different propensities to use certain procedures, it's rarely a symptom of malfeasance.

A bill in the House could tie your doctor's hands.

Genetic manipulation of the human species is coming. In fact, it has arrived.