Highlights   New estimates for reform options Competition and choice in the UK? Massachusetts as a model? All roads to new legislation in Washington run through the Congressional Budget Office, and the CBO yesterday offered health policy makers a menu…

SCHIP will be one of the early must-do agenda items for the new Congress and incoming Obama administration next year. You'll see below a commentary I was asked to write as half of a point-counterpoint debate on using the State…

Most of the health policy proposals offered so far by President-elect Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress would require much more centralized control over our health sector. Mr. Obama has promised repeatedly, "If you have health insurance, then you…

Health care is being teed up for early action next year, with veterans of the Clinton reform effort convinced their delay in getting legislation to Congress 16 years ago was what killed their plan. Act fast and get it passed,…

When Pennsylvania and later Iowa — two key battleground states — turned blue on the maps on election night, the race was over. While other Western swing states eventually turned blue as well, it was clear the presidential election had…