In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…
All the recent debate about the future of Medicare is missing a fundamental truth: the odds of any major changes to Medicare are next to…
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the…
The Affordable Care Act phases out the Medicare Part D coverage gap over the next decade; however, beneficiaries will continue to face…
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…