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Is the arms race in the genetic mapping of cancer worth the investment? Cost-effectiveness analysis could provide our answer.

The U.S. federal government has new ways to reduce waste in Medicare and across the health care system.

The medical community’s mindset and financing continue to explain why health care is plagued with inefficient allocation of resources.

The inefficient allocation of resources explains why so many Medicare dollars are squandered. Here’s a simple example to explain how it happens.

The Lifelong Learning Master Class in New York helped take the OUCH out of disaster preparedness for this alum and other attendees.

The changing business of primary care leaves some without timely access to their doctor and raises the specter of the two-tiered health care system.

Startups will soon be able to raise capital from crowdfunding, but investors might want to look into an innovative insurance product before they jump in.

The Wharton School hosts an eye-opening event that highlights America’s national debt

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Penn faculty respond to the initial effects of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, and ponder longer-term reactions.

The pension systems of the United States and United Kingdom are not dead, but they aren’t exactly the solution of the future either.

Concierge could help solve America’s health-care crisis, or make it worse.

How to design an effective international expansion strategy.

Geisinger Health System has been successful at controlling health-care costs. Can others emulate it? Can Wharton knowledge help?

The Wharton Risk Center gains international publicity from its work with the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report.

Solomon Huebner’s designation as the “father of insurance education” is undisputed. He taught the first course ever given …

How Much Money Will You Need for Retirement? More Than You Think

Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center examines risks and uncertainties from chemical disasters to earthquakes to terrorism

Insurers Faces with Crippling Losses from a Major Hurricane or Earthquake Are Taking a Closer Look at “the Most Innovative Idea in Insurance in the Last 200 Years”

Managing Risk

Last fall, Wharton’s health care systems department celebrated its 25th Anniversary. Faculty and alumni have led the effort to link the disciplines of economics and management to the practice of medicine.