POLITICS

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.

The statist mixed economy, not capitalism, is to blame for Americans’ poor health and poor diet.

This “tax exclusion” for employer-sponsored health insurance is the original sin of US health policy.

The previous administration specifically targeted Jay Bhattacharya, calling him a “fringe epidemiologist” and sought to censor his opinions. This quiet academic who stood up for principle when it mattered has found himself picked to head the world’s most powerful scientific agency.

The government has been taking away people’s rights to make their own health decisions for 90 years without ever studying whether its interventions are benefiting patients.