The world is becoming increasingly scary at the very time that the military will be facing 20% reductions. With each passing day, the world closes in; with each passing day, our ability to manage that world degrades.

Cutting the payroll tax cut, or even eventually eliminating it, might make more sense - if it happens on the Medicare, rather than Social Security side, of FICA.

President Obama says that his health plan's popularity will grow once its provisions start being implemented. But peculiar rules tucked into the legislation are likely to make the entire scheme even more disliked as its implementation approaches.

Medicare spending is on autopilot, and it is coming in for a crash landing. Costs are projected to double to $900 billion over the next decade, and there is increasing evidence that Medicare does not provide good value for the money spent--paying too much or too little for necessary services,...

Medicare reform is important to maintain and regulate the distribution of funds for health care.

Although Medicare's drug benefit might prove to be a significant obstacle to future reforms, it is an important test of competition and consumer choice.

Joseph Antos and Ximena Pinell find that enrollment in the Medicare prescription drug discount programrequires better consumer access to program information.

Does Medicare promote the seven deadly sins: avarice, gluttony, envy, sloth, lust, anger, and vanity? Why has it created so much conflict among different types of providers and among different regions of the country? Why is there so much emphasis on cost and access and not on the...