Wendell Potter of iWatch News discusses how a McKinsey report unleashed a "firestorm" among Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance.

In a New York Times opinion editorial, Paul Krugman explains that Medicare is counter-intutively money-saving.

In a break from the politics of health care reform, McKinsey Quarterly predicts that recent legislation will lead to a significant shift away from employer-provided health insurance among lower-income workers.

Peter Orszag questions whether the Ryan plan's consumer-directed approach to Medicare reform can follow through on its promise to reduce total health spending.

In 2014 "mini-meds" or health care policies that feature high deductibles, modest benefits and low annual caps on medical coverage will be banned. Wendell Potter analyzes how many large insurance companies are securing wavers  to continue providing the heavily contested, but highly profitable policies.

Homi Kharas argues that global food inflation is a result of increasing oil prices and a lack of sustained agricultural investment, not speculators or inept governments.

Bryan Walsh argues that a combination of bad weather, economic growth, and biofuel production created record high food prices.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses one Aghan woman's efforts to stop the reality that every 30 minutes, a pregnant woman dies in Afghanistan.

Peter Orszag writes that if the new Congress is truly concerned about rising health care costs, they should work to deploy the health care act's cost-containment measures fully rather than try to repeal them.

Peter Orszag argues that the health care legislation enacted by Congress earlier this year does many things right.  However, lawmakers did miss an important opportunity to shield from malpractice liability any doctors who followed evidence-based guidelines in treating their patients.

Experts discuss the effect of global aging on public policy and investor communities in relation to predicated health and social costs, as part of CFR's Corporate Program and the Roundtable Series on Aging Populations.

Experts discuss the effect of global aging on public policy and investor communities in relation to predicated health and social costs, as part of CFR's Corporate Program and the Roundtable Series on Aging Populations.

Peter Orszag says that improving the quality of health care and reducing its cost will require that doctors make many changes, including working weekends and consenting to quality management.

Isobel Coleman discusses the feminization of AIDS in Africa and two recent studies that offer hope for prevention.

This report by Amnesty International compiles interviews from North Koreans documenting widespread malnutrition-induced illness and lack of health care, both due to poor government policies.

Robert N. Butler and Michael W. Hodin argue, ""There is solid evidence that aging can be treated as an unprecedented opportunity for investment in economic growth."

Amity Shlaes says that the health care bill undermines important state-level experiments in health care reform.

Max Boot argues that cost of the U.S. health care plan is incompatible with maintenance of the United States' superpower status.

David Brooks reflects on the passage of health care reform as the end of the century-long welfare project and the beginning of the task of saving the country from fiscal ruin.