Whatever else is said or done in the next 18 months about reforming the American health care system, tectonic shifts already are well underway.
The latest evidence comes from a new Census Bureau report released last week. It found that the…

Moving a parent or sibling into a nursing home is emotionally and financially difficult. Keeping them there may be getting even harder.
The Wall Street Journal reports that increasing numbers of frail and sick residents are being forced out of…

Are people rushing into marriage because they need health insurance? The New York Times had an interesting, if largely anecdotal, story last week that made that claim. Read it here.

It seems logical to me that such a trend could be…

By a very wide margin, Americans believe that the nation’s health care system requires a major overhaul, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund. An overwhelming 82 percent of respondents said the system should be fundamentally changed or…

Amid the hoopla of the presidential campaign last week, as candidates were delivering their hopeful economic messages, a dull missive from the government’s bean counters landed with a thud:
The White House Budget Office said it expects next year’s federal deficit…

The St. Louis-based Missouri Foundation For Health gives away about $60 million a year to nonprofit groups that provide medical care to the poor and uninsured. The foundation has paid for kids’ dental care; provided the cervical cancer vaccine to…

In the general election of 2000, the full impact of the term limits Missouri voters had imposed on their state Legislature eight years earlier kicked in. Ninety of the 163 members of the Missouri House elected in 2000 were freshmen.…

Medicaid is like a parachute for thousands of Missouri and Illinois families: Most of the time, they don’t need it. But when the economy slows down, nothing else will take its place.

It plays the same role for economically hard…

The Ballpark Village set back was reported while I was still in Dayton, Ohio.

But even from a vantage 360 miles away (or, perhaps, especially so) one could wonder: Shouldn’t the public have some voice in where firms such as…