For the second year in a row, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has advanced a comprehensive budget plan that would restructure Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the big-spending portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and ultimately resolve the fiscal crisis facing this country. 

This is an all too familiar story, the FDA impeding useful innovations in the US entrepreneurs here are forced to test promising medical devices in costly animal studies for years before they can advance their products into clinical trials. In response, American device makers are moving their business overseas.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

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

It is no surprise that a constitutional amendment to balance the budget would reemerge now -- there's the symbolism of standing for fiscal rectitude and wrapping that position in the cloak of the Constitution.

Paul Ryan and Ron Wyden have defined the policy parameters that could be the basis for real Medicare reform in 2013.

A continuing debate over policy responses to greenhouse gas emissions.

It is important that the EPA maintaina federalist approach of state flexibility and that the states consider using auctions as a means to raise targeted revenues.