As rural hospitals close nationwide, telemedicine is an obvious, and cheap, way to deliver health care to rural populations. But legal barriers are restricting it.

McDonalds plans to stop selling chicken raised on medically important antibiotics. This is a huge step forward towards averting or lessening a predicted antibiotic crisis.

Pope Francis had a mandate to bring order to the Curia and peace to warring Church factions. Neither seems to be going very well just now.

The ACA penalty for not having insurance is about to kick in, but exemptions and extensions may undermine how forceful the mandate is in practice.

The question of whether remarried Catholics can receive communion is quickly becoming the defining question in the Catholic church, and Bishops are picking sides.

Hospital consolidation makes health care more expensive—and we have a botched attempt at cost control partly to thank for it.

Narrow networks and skimpy plans mean some insured Americans don’t really have coverage that works for them. Whatever your preferred policy, the ACA status quo is not working.

Liberal health care wonks are pushing all-payer rate-setting as an alternative to single-payer. But that idea has been tried—and it failed.

A modified Medicaid block grant program in Oregon suggests that interesting health care reforms could be emerging on the state level.

Price transparency is key to fixing U.S. health care, and we should take our cue from solutions to opacity that are already emerging.