New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

To better understand the determinants of health spending, it is important to distinguish spending on chronic health conditions from spending on patients with chronic health conditions.

By the end of the year, 10,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan will be home with their families--and their memories. As many as 20 percent of them will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety or depression, while suicide rates have reached tragic new highs among veterans. In response, the Department of Veterans Affairs has greatly expanded its mental health services.

Arizona's remarkably progressive involuntary treatment laws might have allowed Loughner's school to act. They permit involuntary evaluation and treatment of a person who desperately needs it.

Panelists examined the Medicaid program, how it functions, how it ought to be reformed, and how reform legislation might be enacted.

Based on our reading of the evidence, the Supplemental Security Income-disabled children program has increasingly become a more general welfare program that in large part targets a population of able-bodied single mothers that overlaps with the TANF population.

Altering public attitudes toward the mentally ill depends largely on whether they receive treatment that works.

On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act, through which psychiatric patients would be treated in small community clinics rather than in large expensive state hospitals. Though the act promised to improve conditions and save millions of dollars, it mostly added...