Mackenzie Eaglen argues that the new US secretary of defense needs to undo the damage Jim Mattis and his predecessors did to transparency in the department and make a concerted effort toward more frequent and formal engagements with the media.
As Congress returns from its summer break, the effort to rein in surprise medical bills hangs in the balance. Important as it is for Congress to act, policymakers also should consider why the insurance industry seems incapable of fixing this problem on its own, says James Capretta.
2018’s poverty data are filled with good news for Americans, even though some exceptions demand our attention. Matt Weidinger sorts through the data to find five major takeaways.
Changes to the structure of Medicare’s Part D drug benefit may shift incentives away from specialty drug areas and toward primary care indications, but potential changes to adherence will be important, writes Scott Gottlieb, Benedic N. Ippolito, and Abigail Keller.
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have some of the same problems they had 40 years ago, but the pressures of population growth and expectations of intergenerational equity have put economic policy at the center of state capacity, writes Karen Young in a new report.
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