President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

Why do some employers decide to self-insure for their health insurance plans while others do not? Are they influenced by the fact that state laws prohibit managed care plans from restricting the employee's choice of provider? What effect would congressional or court-ordered changes to the federal law ERISA have on...

When we empower bureaucrats to make huge personal decisions for us, it becomes impossible to avoid trampling on liberty.

Ezekiel Emanuel reminded New York Times readers last week of something health economists have known for eight decades. Health expenditures are highly concentrated, with just 10 percent of the population accounting for nearly two-thirds of annual health spending.

President Obama on Friday announced what he termed an “accommodation” of religious employers: the mandate to provide abortifacient drugs, sterilization and contraception would remain in place — but insurers will be required to provide them for “free.” The decision has been called everything from a compromise to capitulation — but in truth the president didn’t retreat one inch.

Capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance will bend the curve of health care costs and make it more feasible for smaller firms to offer more cost-effective insurance to their workers.

A new book makes the case for more government-run health care.

Developing economies no longer orbit around the International Monetary Fund.