The latest West Health-Gallup survey is a blunt instrument that exposes what many already feel: the American health care system is breaking under the weight of private profit. Released last month, the ...

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There is broad bipartisan agreement that the health-care system in the United States is broken. Our country just endured the longest government shutdown ever, and it was largely over health care.

Lawmakers must put patients back in control of their health care dollars by redirecting subsidies towards them, repealing unnecessary regulations, and promoting policies like health savings accounts.

When patients pay the same no matter the health care option they choose, there’s no incentive for them to make judicious ...

On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shocking alleged corruption that has informed President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine ...

The waiting room is packed. The doctor is running two hours behind. The bill will make your eyes water. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to get an appointment at all. But while health care remains a ...

Health care costs are shared throughout the system. If large numbers of Texans lose coverage, they will start relying on ERs for care, and those costs will be passed on and worsen the affordability ...

Here’s a piece of Republican rhetoric that used to be ubiquitous but that you never hear anymore: America has the best health-care system in the world. Republican politicians liked this line because ...