Major health policy creation or changes, including governmental and private policies affecting health care delivery are based on health care reform(s). Health care reform has been a global issue over the years and the United States has seen proposals for multiple reforms over the years. A successful, health care proposal in the United States with involvement of the federal government was the sh...

The fragmented nature of the U.S. healthcare system is quite anomalous. A hilarious video on YouTube makes the point well, asking what it would be like if air travel worked like healthcare.1 In this alternative world, we see an unfortunate consumer trying to book a crosscountry fl ight to Oregon. He discovers he needs to book separately with an East Coast specialist to get him to Chicago and a ...

Those who have the most to gain from President Obama’s health care legislation are those who have a pre-existing condition or are pre-disposed to illness, for example because they are overweight. They are more likely to need medical care in the future, but can be charged higher rates if they try to buy private insurance, by virtue of their condition. Or they can be excluded completely. (Each ob...

Federalism has become a watchword in the acrimonious debate over a possible replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Missing from that debate, however, is a theoretically grounded and empirically informed understanding of how best to allocate power between the federal government and the states. For health reform, the conventional arguments in favor of a national solution have little reson...