Monthly Archives: August 2009

This is the second of a three-part series on the incentives involved in creating meaningful health care reform. If any major health care legislation is passed in the United States in 2009, it will almost certainly involve some form of an...

Four years ago this week – August 28, 2005 to be precise – Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region, killing more than 1,800 people and causing more than $81 billion in damages. The devastating storm left the region’s...

There is a revolution under way in American health care. It is not what you are reading about in the newspapers or seeing on TV. Those outlets are filled with the highfalutin rhetoric, promises, and hopes of Washington politicians who...

To be successful, healthcare reform must pay for extending coverage to the uninsured while credibly controlling future costs. Current proposals include a mandate for employers, a public insurance option, and tax increases on high-income...