David Williams

The wild attacks on Social Security by Republican presidential candidates including Rick Perry’s famous characterization of the program as “a Ponzi scheme” are amusing, but are a serious distraction from the real fiscal issues facing the country.

Republicans have done a good job attacking the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and I’ve criticized their criticisms for being largely cheap shots and inaccuracies.

John Goodman’s Three Simple Ways Medicare Can Save Money sparked ample debate on this blog and John’s. Now the Wall Street Journal has printed letters in response. Three of the four point out ways in which the simple solutions aren’t quite as promising as they seem.

Ever since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed, opponents have looked for ways to overturn it in the court of law and the court of public opinion.

After reading the July edition of Health Affairs, I’m concerned about the impact of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) on cost trends in the US health care system.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) criteria.

The normally sage CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Drew Altman, isn't as persuasive in his latest Pulling it Together column. As he puts it, "our health care system has been, and will remain, a mixed public-private one."

For some reason the Boston Globe devotes its top slot on the July 25 Opinion page to a tired and faulty argument from former US GOP Senator John Sununu against the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Foes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) made a big point of complaining about the length of the bill.

We are at serious risk of applying a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to recover from.