This article reviews administrative law issues relevant to the roles of the courts, Congress, and the Health Care Financing Administration in governing Medicare. First, it reviews the dozen Supreme Court cases involving Medicare and a cross-section of lower court cases over the history of the...

This article attempts to explain why health care costs more in the United States than anywhere else in the world. It concludes that the major reason for this difference is the widespread and immediate availability of high technology care in the United States, with secondary reasons being the...