ALTON - Progress in a democracy is often a slow, tedious process, especially when confronted with complicated problems that require resolution. It can be frustrating for everyone. Often, however, the [...]

One summer I worked for a local construction company paving the streets in my home town. That meant 10 hours a day of shoveling dirt out of gutters prior to [...]

Although many of the systemic changes we have seen in health care have helped suppress market forces, there is one glaring exception, Consumer-Driven Health Care, consisting of Health Savings Accounts [...]

ALTON - Jeffery Anderson recently became the director of the Office of Health Reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, after having formerly served at the 2017 Project [...]

Many organizations and individuals have been working for years to bring about workable health care reform. At present, however, PPACA (ObamaCare) is the law, and it is rigid, unworkable, and, [...]

John Cochrane of the Hoover Institute, formerly of the University of Chicago, calls preexisting conditions the “CENTRAL DEFECT OF AMERICAN HEALTH INSURANCE”. People with chronic conditions, such as cancer, heart [...]

Most of us expect to keep our health insurance plan until we reach Medicare age at 65 years. However, some people develop a chronic illness at some time after purchasing [...]

In 2017, after Congress failed to enact a health care reform bill to modify or replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump signed an order to promote health care choice [...]

One of the great inequities in our health care system is the income tax benefit large companies have over small companies with less than 50 employees. The latter receive no [...]

This essay is based primarily on two blogs by Brian Blase, President of Blase Policy Strategies, a senior fellow at the Galen Institute and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and [...]