Health reform proposals across the spectrum have included changes in how the U.S. health system is financed, but they have policy implications that have received little public attention.

Medicare is under intense scrutiny from the Democratic Congress, driven by recent policies that have increased program spending. The new Part D drug benefit is popular with seniors, but expensive to taxpayers. Democrats argue that the prices of Part D pharmaceuticals are too high and that direct government negotiation would...

Critical discusses the Democrat's plan to overhaul the American health care system and provides more detail than the candidates have released.

Congress now seems to be showing substantial interest in adding coverage of outpatient prescription drugs to the Medicare program. Several proposals to do so have already been developed, and others are under discussion.

This AEI session, the second in a series, will consider four of the proposals, which represent...

Lost in the debate over SCHIP reauthorization is the effect that creating an open-ended entitlement will have on states' incentives to spend money that may leave poor states behind.