This article examines the usual explanations for high U.S. health care costs, including medical technology, physician spending, patient choices and others. It then looks at the Affordable Care Act and other regulatory ideas to slow and better rationalize the high costs of the American system,...

Healthcare reform is not a singular event but, instead, a constant process that will continue into the foreseeable future. This Article proposes - for the first time - a creative solution to the acrimonious and debilitating method we currently use in assessing and implementing healthcare reform...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy analyses. We then review the literature on the importance...