A decade of quality measurement and reporting suggests that poor quality is pervasive in the U.S. health care system. Neither the recognition of system wide quality problems nor public reporting of comparative quality across health plans, hospitals, and physicians has resulted in substantial...

Employer health insurance mandates form the basis of many health care reform proposals. Proponents make the case that they will increase insurance, while opponents raise the concern that low-wage workers will see offsetting reductions in their wages and that in the presence of minimum wage laws...