The Affordable Care Act appears likely to worsen rather than cure the significant (but generally unrecognized) unfairnesses to middle- and lower-income working people that have long characterized private health care financing in the U.S. For example, the law’s mandate that individuals purchase...

While American policymakers and commentators have traditionally focused on three aspects of the health care system - access, cost, and quality - they have neglected an arguably coequal fourth issue: equity in the distribution of health care costs and benefits. This brief introduction to a...

This article explores the hypothesis that the U.S. health care system operates more like a robber baron than like Robin Hood, burdening ordinary payers of health insurance premiums disproportionately for the benefit of industry interests and higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and...