The search for better anti-addiction medications is worthy, but we have to be realistic. The passive model of drug treatment for addiction is a pipe dream.

Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states.

We've never had a nerd president. White House correspondents call their gala the 'nerd prom' because it sounds self-deprecating around celebrities and bigwigs.

Once again, the regulators in California have decided to lead the nation in terms of vehicle emission standards, proposing to require that 15.4 percent of all vehicles sold by 2025 must be electric cars, plug-in hybrid cars, or (currently non-existent) fuel cell cars.

For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. 

Unless budget hawks can generate a more productive answer from citizens, we are in serious trouble.

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

President Obama in his State of the Union Address proposed that legislation be passed authorizing FHA to provide all homeowners that are current on their mortgage the opportunity to refinance at today's record low rates.