In "It’s Even Worse Than It Looks," congressional scholars Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of AEI identify two overriding problems that have led Congress — and the United States — to the brink of institutional collapse. Mann and Ornstein call on the media as well as the public at large to focus on the true causes of dysfunction.

If we are to have the kind of comprehensive government-guaranteed health care that Barack Obama and Tom Daschle want, we will need to open ourselves to the international market in medical services.

Critical discusses the Democrat's plan to overhaul the American health care system and provides more detail than the candidates have released.

Tuesday, February 3, was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Barack Obama.

While the United States consumes a disproportionate share of global resources devoted to medical care, this global share is shrinking.

As the presidential race approaches its fall phase, intensified by excitement over vice presidential selections and upcoming party conventions, the media are focusing on the horse race and honing in on missteps—public and private—by both candidates. What substantive coverage there is tends to look at the fine details of the...

As the presidential race approaches its fall phase, intensified by excitement over vice presidential selections and upcoming party conventions, the media are focusing on the horse race and honing in on missteps—public and private—by both candidates. What substantive coverage there is tends to look at the fine details of the...

A bill in the House could tie your doctor's hands.