Insurance should cover effective and appropriate treatment for anorexia nervosa, which may or may not be residential care, for a particular patient. Adding coverage for any medical illness according to category (e.g., residential care) is usually a bad idea.

Committees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have adopted bills that would modify the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and both houses could act upon these bills in the fall. The most controversial element of the proposed legislation is a provision in the Senate committee bill...

At this event, our panel of experts will share their thoughts on Bubble Trouble.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy.

Government housing policies and the toxic mortgages they spawned were the sine qua non of the financial crisis.

In less than twenty-five years, government “affordable housing” and other housing policies have turned a healthy market into a financial ruin. Until Fannie and Freddie’s market dominance and the government’s role in the housing finance system are substantially reduced or eliminated, the United States will continue to have an inferior and unstable housing market.

Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry boast much better records than Mitt Romney in holding down health expenditures.

Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's Metro rail transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central planners -- and especially rail transit planners -- can get things disastrously and expensively wrong.