Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- Why Expanding Social Security Is a Bad Idea Andrew G. Biggs 04/16/2013
- A New America Foundation proposal would cost 3.7 percent of GDP and crowd out the private saving that drives our economy.
- The Shrinking Health Gap Benjamin Ho and Sita Nataraj Slavov 03/26/2013
- When considering trends in equality, income is important, but health is arguably a prerequisite for all other measures of well-being.
- ‘Not One Dime’: Health Care Law Projected to Add $6.2 Trillion to U.S. Deficit Christopher J. Conover 03/14/2013
- Congress is likely to follow precedent and bypass the new health care law’s draconian payment cuts to doctors and hospitals, causing the law's cost to balloon by trillions of dollars.
- Just How Polluted Is China Anyway? Vaclav Smil 01/31/2013
- Decades ago, I wrote the first comprehensive books on China’s energy and environment. I have not been surprised by the country’s continuing environmental degradation; even so, I could not have predicted such a deterioration of air quality.
- China’s Sick Yellow River Roger Bate 01/31/2013
- China’s water pollution is even worse than its better-known air pollution. As long as the Chinese people have few private rights, government-backed pollution will continue.
- Beyond Defeat or Defiance Thomas P. Miller 12/27/2012
- Redefining state-based health reform under Obamacare.
- Prescription for Trouble Sen. Tom Coburn, MD and Scott Gottlieb, MD 12/18/2012
- The FDA can finally prevent narcotic drugs that can be widely abused from easily threatening patient safety. Will it seize the moment?
- Death Panels, Revisited Robert McHenry 12/07/2012
- When it comes to doling out medical care, especially life-preserving care, we all begin to get a little squeamish. No one wants to be the one who says no. We don’t even want to acknowledge that it is happening.
- The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes Gilbert Ross, M.D. 11/15/2012
- What the critics see as a bug is actually a feature: e-cigarettes can work as a public health tool precisely because of their resemblance to the real thing.
- Did President Obama Restore Science to Its Rightful Place? Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell 11/05/2012
- On a whole host of issues, Obama has placed politics before science.