The health care systems of all developed countries face three unrelenting problems: rising costs, inadequate quality, and incomplete access to care. Much analysis published in medical journals suggests that other countries have found superior solutions to these problems.1 This conclusion is at odds with economic research that is published in journals physicians seldom read, using [...]

A little-known provision in PPACA created the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) to subsidize employer-sponsored health benefit programs for early retirees. Nationally, about three-fifths of such plans serve local-government employees or are  union-run or union-negotiated. Essentially, taxpayers will be billed another $5 billion to cover public employees in addition to the billions already required for [...]

After ferocious public debate and two years of implementation, the legislation still faces an uncertain fate – and the Obama administration still finds itself working to convince a majority of Americans that its signature health care reform isn’t a bad thing. While the U.S. Supreme Court will also focus on the key issue of whether [...]

Mandatory insurance takes what’s wrong with health insurance and makes it worse. It means higher costs, less incentive to please patients, and the prohibition of affordable insurance plans. Amendment 63 would block Colorado politicians from imposing mandatory insurance. It would also prevent the feds from pressuring the Colorado legislature to enforce Washington’s version of it. [...]