The rapid growth of Disability Insurance does not appear to be from a true rise in disabling illness, but rather from policies that increased the subjectivity of the disability screening process.

European-style health care reforms could weaken the war on cancer.

Under President Obama’s health care plan, the United States Preventive Services Task Force now wields great power to decide which health services (like mammograms) doctors should provide, yet it has few checks on its sweeping authority.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing new rules that seek to make it easier for veterans that have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability, but misapplied largess can undermine the recovery prospects of other veterans.

It is not in any industry"s interests to share information that will lead to costly regulations.So how do government regulators secure needed information from industry?

As the world financial system grows more complex, new screening methods must be implemented to avoid crisis.

A new report shows that children attending school near Ground Zero on9/11were muchless likely to have a mental disorder than children anywhere else in New York City.