There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...

The Netherlands is an early mover in healthcare liberalisation. It has a dual policy towards competition enforcement in the sector: not only the general competition rules (the prohibitions on cartels and the abuse of dominance, and merger control) but also rules of sector specific competition...

In anticipation of the escalating costs of long term care, consumers and the federal and state governments are engaging in a variety of strategies intended to preserve the financial solvency of the respective party. For the consumer, this may mean planning in a way designed to maximize one's...