Several recent stories show Pope Francis pursuing a reform agenda that is more nuanced, and more in continuity with the work of his predecessors, than many realize.

The private oncology practice is going extinct as hospitals absorb previously independent cancer doctors. The result is a treatment regime that is more expensive for the patient.

The holy grail of medical 3-D printing is the ability to produce a functioning human organ. But even though that goal is far away, there is still a lot 3-D printing can already do to disrupt health care.

Hospitals are increasingly asking patients to pre-pay for their health care. The trend is troubling, but it does mean at least one change for the better: price opacity may be on its way out.

American medicine needs innovations in medical technology if it is to become affordable and efficient. But a Washington Post profile of a new diagnostic tool shows just how resistant to those innovations the political and legal culture around American health care is.

Many South American Catholics are leaving the Church, largely for Protestant denominations. That’s a different challenge than the one facing the Church in Europe, and it may be Pope Francis’s mission to address it.

The GOP leadership wants to hollow out the employer mandate by exempting more workers from it. This tactic is neither “repeal” nor “replace” but something much smarter politically.

Competency-based degrees and three-year degree programs promise to help shift higher education from a “time served” to a “stuff learned” model. But students still long for the “full college experience.”

Tenacious demographer Joel Kotkin offers a flawed but formidable critique of America’s new oligarchy: Silicon Valley tech giants and the urban “gentry liberals” who support them.

In a warning to the GOP, voters who care most about health care broke Democrat in these midterms a lot more than in 2010.