WASHINGTON — The Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee issued a fascinating and largely overlooked report the other day highlighting how little Congress and the White...
U.S. health care spending has never grown as slowly as it did last year.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Oval Office when the U.S. government began recording health-care...
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is setting the groundwork for an administration he vows will be financially transparent.
Wolf says he won’t accept a salary or live in the governor’s...
Life is full of unpleasant events and lousy surprises, and many of them are beyond remedy. Most people learn that, often, you just have to suck it up and move on. You ca...
When gas prices soar, Americans wail. Inevitably Congress launches an “investigation” and discovers-over and over again that by and large prices are the result of market...
The trillion-dollar spending bill that the House of Representatives passed last week had something for everyone to hate. But it was still a step, however awkward, toward...
WASHINGTON — Has the monster of exploding health costs finally been slain? After five years of slow spending growth, it’s tempting to think so. This would be fabulous ne...
Watching Congress at work last week, it might seem as though things were better with a do-nothing Congress.
Late last week, Congress was back to its old tricks, gaming t...
As Republicans in Congress gear up in January for their most aggressive attack yet on President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms, here’s something they probably won’t ...
When President Bill Clinton and 33 other heads of state held a milestone Summit of the Americas in Miami 20 years ago this week, they committed their countries to the dr...
