To implement the right reforms, policymakers must understand what pieces of legislation have contributed the most to the federal fiscal imbalance

Trump should demand that Congress codify his 2018 rule. If Congress won’t act, the administration should reissue that 2018 rule. 

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

We testified on the Department of Veterans' Affairs electronic health records modernization efforts before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs...

Josh Shapiro announced two measles deaths. Things went downhill fast.

Senate Democrats hope to highlight health costs by forcing a vote on the Trump administration’s changes to the Affordable Care Act before the midterm elections. Meanwhile, Alabama is the latest state ...

Long waits and troubled patients offer us a warning about the tradeoffs behind government-run health care.

The federal government is not subsidizing workers $316 billion for enrolling in ESI. It is threatening to take $316 billion away from them if they don’t. It is absurd to describe money that the government never taxes and never spends — indeed, never even touches — as government spending.

While critics say high health care prices are the result of free markets, the OECD reports that when it comes to government control of health spending, the United States is actually closer to communis...

When surgery became unavoidable, a man with no insurance shopped around for the best price for a hernia repair — and saved thousands by traveling out of state.

The federal government is not subsidizing workers $316 billion for enrolling in ESI. It is threatening to take $316 billion away from them if they don’t. It is absurd to describe money that the government never taxes and never spends — indeed, never even touches — as government spending.

Medicare spent $1.2 trillion in 2025 and still can’t show it’s saving lives. The Cato Institute’s Laura Bondank-Harmon is joined by Michael Cannon and David Hyman to mark the program’s 60th anniversary, explaining how it broke health care pricing and why “Medicare for All” would only make it worse.

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In FY 2025, the VA's Community Care program made $608 million in payment errors and Medicare Advantage made $23.7 billion in payment errors. Both...