Medical care in the United States has been loudly and repeatedly derided as inferior in comparison to health care systems in much of the developed world and even in some relatively undeveloped nations. In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, challenging the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. Rather than relying on purely subjective judgments about equity and fairness, the book provides extensive, detailed evidence with which to answer the paramount question when considering quality of health care: “Where would you rather be when you are sick?”

Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow who currently serves as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, discusses his recent study, which reveals that the president's national health care law adds $340 billion to the deficit.

Scott W. Atlas, MD, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center, and senior fellow by courtesy at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. He delivered a talk titled “Health Care Reform: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Health Care” on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at the University Auditorium in Palo Alto as part of the Martin and Illie Anderson Lecture series.

Congressman Paul Ryan discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the importance of repealing Obamacare.

R. Glenn Hubbard, a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy and the dean of Columbia University Business School, where he is also the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, discusses the economy, health care, and “too big to fail” on Fox Business News.

Richard Epstein is a professor of law at the New York University law school, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago law school. His latest book is The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act. John Yoo is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school. His most recent book is Crisis and Command.

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of Hoover's Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will debate Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.

Mark Pauly, a member of Hoover’s Working Group on Health Care Policy, met with members of the Congressional Health Care Caucus to discuss how the individual private health insurance market can work to provide quality, affordable, health care insurance for Americans. Pauly also discussed his book Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance and participated in a lively question-and-answer session on health reform with caucus members.

On Wednesday, March 10, Scott Atlas hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss health care policy and the current health care debate in Congress. (45:24)

Scott Atlas, MD, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses ideas to improve our health care system without positioning government as the dominant insurer.

David Brady, the deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, gave a presentation titled “Why Health Care Is So Hard to Reform” on September 8 at the Hyatt in Palo Alto.

The United States leads the developed world in spending on health care, at nearly 15 percent of our GDP. But based on measures such as life expectancy at birth, Americans receive a lower level of care than do the citizens of many countries that spend less. What's wrong with health care in America? And how should we fix it? Peter Robinson speaks with John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven.

The United States leads the developed world in spending on health care, at nearly 15 percent of our GDP. But based on measures such as life expectancy at birth, Americans receive a lower level of care than do the citizens of many countries that spend less. What's wrong with health care in America? And how should we fix it? Peter Robinson speaks with John F. Cogan and Alain Enthoven.