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.

The history of the homebuyer tax credit shows that the housing stimulus package was ineffective, added billions of dollars to an already bloated deficit, and wasted tax dollars.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Scott Gottlieb, MD a former senior adviser to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warns that a new ruling by CMS will force people to get open-heart surgeries that might have been avoidable.

The US food system is widely recognized as one of the safest in the world. Nevertheless, about one in every six American is sick every year from eating a contaminated food product. Food safety incidents often make the news and many perceive the US food system as vulnerable.

We must make a concerted effort today to increase our capacity for timely development of safe, effective and innovative flu vaccines.

Taxes and other provisions in the current health care reform legislation will inflict the sick and the elderly with higher prices.

Unless philanthropists insist on market principles in Africa's drug market, and until they apply necessary due diligence when cutting checks, their aid stands to be hijacked by governmental opportunism, incompetence, and corruption.

If we only had vital statistics to go by, we might easily believe Russia is a country trapped in a prolonged and devastating war against health.