The latest West Health-Gallup survey is a blunt instrument that exposes what many already feel: the American health care system is breaking under the weight of private profit. Released last month, the ...

New American Heart Association Presidential Advisory outlines contributors to and consequences of the current health care affordability crisis, proposes five guiding principles for action by lawmakers ...

There is broad bipartisan agreement that the health-care system in the United States is broken. Our country just endured the longest government shutdown ever, and it was largely over health care.

“Our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens,” President Donald Trump said on February 13, 2025, the day his nominee to run the nation’s health agencies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

Ever since the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” American healthcare has descended into chaos. Premiums have skyrocketed while insurance companies have gotten rich – all at the expense of patients.

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

The majority of Americans receive their health care from employer-sponsored plans. “Employer-sponsored coverage isn’t one small part of the health care system – it is the American health care system,” ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post returned to one of his areas of core incompetence last Tuesday with a lunging attack on Republican leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. In a single column, he ...

This common refrain frequently appears in the comments section of social media posts, often after an update on the Trump administration’s spending, the president’s goal to build a giant triumphal arch ...

Michigan Democratic voters were asked in a recent poll about the 2026 U.S. Senate primary and their views on various topics. A poll conducted by WDIV/Detroit News asked Democratic voters from across ...

AI will not determine whether American health care becomes more or less affordable. The payment system will determine that, as it always has. What AI changes is the speed and scale at which the ...