Health Care Policy

By Bethany Mandel: Since most in the media and on Capitol Hill come from upper-middle-class households, few seem to spend time talking to those Americans on Medicaid rolls.

By Adam Barsouk: The future of American medicine, for practitioners and patients, hangs in the balance.

By Paul Howard and Yevgeniy Feyman: One intriguing idea is giving states more flexibility under the law’s State Innovation Waivers.

By Rick Moran: The idea to put the entire health care industry under government control for all 320 million Americans is not popular.

By Jayme Metzgar: Britain’s socialized health service planned to make Kim wait for surgery until a full year after her first kidney stone attack.

By Nathan Nascimento: He has considerable discretion to loosen the law’s requirements.

By Rachel del Guidice: Not a single Republican voted for final passage of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.

By Brian Riedl: A Canadian-style system in the United States would collapse under the astronomical weight of its cost to taxpayers.

By Charles Henderson: The United States spent $457 billion on prescription drugs in 2015, nearly 17 percent of total healthcare spending.

By Doug Badger: The law expanded coverage among the poor at the expense of coverage among the middle class.