In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This…
One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also…
The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia's population,…
The proposed reductions in the Pentagon’s budget have a lot of people worried that smaller will mean weaker. The defense and aerospace…
Background: Employers are increasingly offering high-deductible health insurance plans with associated health savings accounts (HSAs), but…
The United States is in the throes of the most
serious recession in post-war history. Despite
improving employment numbers, the official…
With the Supreme Court's thunderbolt, a crucial battle is over on health care, but the war surely goes on. Or does it?
There has been a…
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Roosevelt launched a crusade against the Supreme Court, angry that it was overturning important New Deal…
It’s not supposed to happen this way. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, the stress on America’s military should be…
The risk of medical malpractice varies substantially according to physician specialty. Despite evidence regarding the frequency with which…