The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

Under a program like work-sharing, firms are encouraged by government policy to spread a small amount of the pain across many workers.

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

Tom Miller's proposals for Medicaid reform. 

Better-designed provider-level measurement can make the cost containment tools of differential reimbursement, high-performance tiered networks, valuebased benefit design, clinical re-engineering, and the responsible choices they offer more visible and effective.

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.

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