By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

Registration for this event is closed.

In the 1970s, policymakers tried to control healthcare costs by limiting the construction of new health facilities through certificate of need (CON) laws. However, empirical studies of such limits on hospital construction could not find convincing evidence that this type of regulation was effective....

Gradually lowering greenhouse gas emissions would be worthwhile were all states to join in the effort, but absent such strong, broad-based action, countries should explore other means of limiting harm from climate change.

The withdrawal of several medications from the market in recent months has coincided with the publication of a stream of articles on drug safety in prominent journals. These developments have caused policy makers, pharmaceutical firms, physicians, and the Food and Drug Administration to look especially closely at drug safety and...

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is an ambitious attempt to meet the very real challenges posed by greenhouse gases.

Inattention to the problems of Medicare cannot last.

Pressureis buildingto give Americans access to prescription drugs from price-controlled nations, yet legislation needs to consider the effects of allowing unrestricted importation.