POLITICS

The AAP, originally created a century ago to advocate for pediatricians and their patients, has devolved into an advertiser and lobbyist for the corporate interests that fund their operations. So much for “dedicated to the health of all children.”

Journalism does Valjean a further injustice when it focuses only on the bone and not the boot.

The American frustration with government regulated private insurance does not prove the need for a Canadian- or European-style system.

It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.

To contain Medicare spending, Congress must break the grip the health care industry has on Medicare.

The changes that House Republicans have proposed fall far short of what Congress must do to make health care better, more affordable, and more secure.

None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. They can all be pursued without touching existing entitlement systems and legacy welfare provision. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system. It seems like they should earn bipartisan support. 

Because of Medicaid’s matching grant system, states have no incentive to cut wasteful or fraudulent Medicaid outlays and every incentive to increase both.