The latest Census figures show the United States now has 49.9 million uninsured, an increase of nearly 1 million over the preceding year. Both in terms of absolute numbers and the percentage of Americans without coverage, this is the highest figure recorded since the Bureau began asking questions about health insurance in its annual survey three decades ago.

In a just-published op-ed in the New York Times, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) international health economist Roger Bate highlights a better way to fight fake pharmaceuticals while still giving poor Americans access to less costly drugs from online pharmacies.

If the individual mandate is upheld, Americans will have suffered a loss of liberty from which there will be no turning back.

The dirty little secret of American healthcare is that the mandate wouldn’t save taxpayers a dime. Why? Because the tax subsidies for people with health insurance are bigger than the unpaid medical bills left behind by the uninsured.

Why the uninsured will continue waiting for insurance long after Obamacare becomes law.

In an attempt to protect poor, uninsured and underinsured Americans from unsafe drugs, we are making sure that some go without drugs completely. It is time the law was changed.

Reversing decades of overregulation, mistargeted tax subsidies, and lack of transparency in the health care sector would not solve all problems, but it surely would help reduce them.

A new study continues to rain on the political parade of claims that the uncompensated care costs of the uninsured are largely recycled into higher private insurance premiums.