Response to Jeffrey Keefe’s review of “Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers.”

Robert G. Kaiser tells the story of how earmarks grew into a huge business and distorted our politics.

Our research shows that competitive bidding—a key feature of the Wyden-Ryan plan—could save Medicare $339 billion over ten years while maintaining basic benefits and without raising taxes. Crucially, the elderly would not be exposed to the risk of higher health care costs, as in approaches that would set fixed voucher payments toward the purchase of medical insurance.

Medicaid provides health care for the poorest and most severely disabled members of our society, and improving its quality should be a top priority.

The reality is that reasons for slower growth in some types of U.S. health care spending within the last few years are rather complex, though partly related to declines in our economy.

In financial health public opinion, which perspective should we trust more, the local or the global?

The Obama administration envisions accountable care organizations (ACOs) as the drivers of health care innovation, but such innovation has historically come from entrepreneurs in the private sector.

China's entry into the World Trade Organization marked the final step in China's long march from Maoist autarky to global trading nation.