The role of hospital consolidation in high health care prices is coming under more scrutiny.

The Grey Lady reports that many employees find insurance too expensive even after the ACA—and are choosing to forgo coverage.

Only by reforming the way health care services are delivered—experimenting with things like telehealth, remote monitoring, and new care settings like clinics—can we create a sustainable health care system.

If premiums truly do skyrocket, that will be a political disaster for the Administration. If they increase only modestly, the Administration will make PR hay out of it. But in either case, the U.S. health care system will remain broken.

No matter what kind of system one has, costs are rising across the industrialized world. Having a more public system doesn’t appear to halt that trend.

Wait lines and costs have only gotten worse in the VA since the scandal broke last year. Maybe the system doesn’t work as well as some on the left think.

The former head of Britain’s National Health Service Sir David Nicholson warns that “managed decline” could be coming to British health care—and emergency action will be needed to shore up its finances.

New Jersey has the lowest rate in the country of doctors willing to see Medicaid patients. But inability of Medicaid patients to get actual treatment is a national problem.

The annual check-up is just one of the many unnecessary practices with a price tag scattered throughout our health care system.

Regulators in California have stripped Blue Shield of its exemption from state taxes because its profits are too high and its charitable donations too low. Could the same thing happen to nonprofit hospitals?