This updated second edition details a better approach to health care, offering fundamental reform alternatives centering on tax changes, insurance market changes, and redesigning Medicare and Medicaid.

The new health care law will likely generate more cost shifting--the opposite of what its supporters would have us believe.

Health care's critical problem, rising costs, would be solved with more competition and greater individual control over health spending.

To persuade the American people to support his health reform agenda, the president has made two simple promises: First, his plan will benefit everyone who already has health insurance; Second, his plan will not add to the nation's yawning budget deficit.

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

Subsidizing individuals with high expected health costs is an effective way to increase the private insurance coverage of other high-cost individuals.

The consequences for health spending and federal revenues of an above-the-line deduction for out-of-pocket health spending can be specified as a function of behavioral parameters.

President Bush proposed to gradually change the way U.S. health care is purchased and offered an opportunity to rein in the rising costs of care.