Op/Ed

Let's shift from the current system where countless people are involved in managing care and controlling costs—except the doctor and patient—to one in which patients are financially empowered to make their own decisions.

Government program defrauders should have a positive outlook for 2014 as a banner year for scamming taxpayers. 

The Republican Study Committee’s recent proposal as an alternative to the Obamacare rollout is on the right track, and changes economic incentives for the U.S. health care system. 

The GOP has an 83 percent chance or better of winning the presidency in 2016.

The U.S. decline appears to be part of a long-term trend due primarily to power plants increasingly switching from coal to cheap and cleaner-burning natural gas.

The Clintons are trying to create the impression that Hillary has the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination sewn up. A more realistic analysis would recognize that she has a lot of baggage in a general election that will stress image, competency and honesty. Hillary is challenged on all three.

There's turmoil among health insurers as they try to provide Obamacare-qualified coverage that has become at best a moving target. But they deserve every bit of the confusion, uncertainty and potential financial losses they get.

Although technology is merely a tool that can be used for either good or evil, in the wake of the NSA's invasion into our private lives, the time is now when society must decide if it wants expanded freedom or expansive government control.

Obama's policies have been a disaster for low-income and low-skilled workers, which is why their unemployment rate is so high.  And now, in the name of reducing income inequality, he would make millions of Americans even poorer.

For the first time in decades, the sequester actually reduced federal discretionary spending, rather than just slowing the rate of growth. That was a huge achievement and is almost certainly one of the primary reasons why the economy is picking up steam again. If the Ryan-Murray agreement passes, the sequester is dead; there won’t be any resurrection.