Health Care

Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson explores the unsolved "health spending mystery," whether the recent slowdown in health care spending...

While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...

A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

As we've written many times before, the U.S. population is aging and in doing so putting increasing pressure on Social Security, Medicare, and to some...

As we have written before, the recent downward turn in the growth of health care costs is an encouraging development, but one that may not last in the...

Early this month, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate penalty in the Affordable Care Act for...

Last week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...

After releasing a broad physician payment reform draft, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released a more fleshed out framework to replace...

Recently, there has been some discussion of taking the employer-sponsored health exclusion off the table in tax reform. But for those interested in...

Yesterday, the Obama administration announced the one-year delay of a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires coverage reporting and...

It's no secret that getting health care spending under control will be key for the federal budget. Nearly one out of every four federal program...