Addressing the root causes of ill health requires being honest about the extent and location of the poverty, inequality and despair in our society. The bottom line is that improving the nation’s health is a political agenda.

There are alternatives for achieving Medicare for All's goals, says Editor Emeritus Merrill Goozner.

With the advance of new technologies like video conferencing, telehealth and remote monitoring, many patients are realizing the best access point for physician care is once again their home.

Even if Congress prohibits rebates and requires drug companies to pass along every dime in savings to customers, which almost every CEO in attendance pledged to do, tens of millions of patients will still be hitting their out-of-pocket maximums.

Over the past decade, CMS actuaries have consistently overestimated future healthcare spending. They failed to foresee the great moderation that in fact took place.

Among all the proffered panaceas for reducing America's high healthcare costs, price transparency is the least likely to make a major dent in the problem.

Let's acknowledge that there's a tremendous amount of waste in the system. Unnecessary tests and procedures are performed every day in America's hospitals and physician offices.

It's time for the relevant committees to tackle the regulation and prices of expensive and potentially dangerous medical devices, which are being inserted every day in thousands of patients in America's hospitals.

Rural communities will feel the pain first. But it will also ripple through major cities, where the healthcare workforce has become highly dependent on a steady stream of physicians, nurses and support staff born in other countries.

Other populous states should take a close look at what California is doing. Smaller states may want to form compacts with their neighbors to pursue something similar. Gov. Gavin Newsom has offered a practical approach to achieving more reasonable drug pricing.

After nearly two decades of concerted efforts, it's time for the National Academies to judge whether quality and safety have improved and where new work is needed most.

For decades, demographers and economists have predicted the gray tsunami of aging baby boomers would inevitably push healthcare spending over 20% of GDP. But a new paper highlights some recent trends suggesting the future may not be as bleak and hard to manage as predicted.

Tariff battles, whether in 1992 or 2018, will not solve what remains one of U.S. businesses' main international competitiveness problems: the higher prices they pay for healthcare and the tab's uneven distribution.

The share of Americans without health coverage will undoubtedly tick up next year for the first time in nearly a decade. This dubious achievement arrives just as the U.S. economy is nearing full employment. This shouldn't be happening.

Physicians who tend to the nation's gunshot victims pushed back against an NRA tweet telling them to "stay in their lane" after the American College of Physicians updated its positions on reducing gun injuries and deaths.