Health Care Policy

By Sally Pipes: The number of uninsured Americans is rising. Last year, 27.4 million Americans went without health insurance, an increase of 700,000 from 2016, according to a just-published analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation….

By Grace-Marie Turner: The Health Care Choices Plan we developed would help the millions of people who are struggling to afford health insurance, particularly in the small group and individual markets, to have access…

By Genevieve Wood: What if we tried the completely opposite approach and put individuals and patients, also known as consumers, in the driver’s seat?

By Nicholas DeSimone: US health care spending is reaching 20 percent of GDP, and hospital care is the largest contributor to that, accounting for $1.1 trillion in 2016.

From HHS.gov: The United States healthcare system increasingly imposes a bewildering array of complexity and inefficiency on consumers, employers, workers and taxpayers while powerful institutions that benefit from the status quo resist efforts at…

By Christopher Jacobs: We don’t need to adopt socialist ‘health care is a human right’ talking points in order to have a better, more efficient, free market system.

By Chris Pope: The battle to reform health insurance has largely concentrated on the individual market, in which only 15 million Americans are enrolled.

By Doug Badger: In an important paper the Galen Institute is releasing today, Senior Fellow Doug Badger examines the role that employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) plays in the larger U.S. health sector and offers…

By Ryan McMaken: According to the World Health Organization, US per capita government spending on health care is the fourth highest in the world.

By Sarah Lee and Charlie Katebi: As Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I) continues to tout the so-called benefits of “Medicare for All” — despite its exorbitant costs and the fact that the next generation…

By Justin Haskins and Charlie Katebi: The Obamacare scheme has unquestionably failed to provide Americans with affordable health insurance.

By Christopher Jacobs: Obamacare uprooted the entire market to address a comparatively small universe of truly uninsurable patients. A better reform would use a more specialized approach.

A video from City Journal: Chris Pope joins John Stossel to talk about the debate over single-payer health care—a system in which the federal government would assume all health-care costs currently borne by private…