We close the year with encouraging news about passage of the important enhancements to Health Savings Accounts that we described to you last week. It was a small miracle that they were approved as the curtain fell on the last…

The news last Saturday provided vivid, painful proof that drug innovation is indeed a very risky business. Pfizer was in the final stages of testing a new drug for heart disease that would not just lower bad cholesterol, as its…

It is wise for us to search for the opportunities amidst the challenges the new Congress will present. A few examples: The uninsured. Incoming Democratic Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark co-signed an op-ed in The Washington Post in 1999 with…

Our Medicaid Commission held its final meeting on Friday to vote on recommendations to reform what has become the largest health care program in the country, with 55 million recipients. The recommendations we produced are carefully bold, respecting Medicaid’s role…

Well, it certainly is a new ball game. While the elections were not a referendum on health care, health care nonetheless is likely to take center stage in the new Democrat-controlled Congress, and we’ll be dealing with new people, different…