The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.

In their written responses, several readers invoked the Hippocratic Oath, from which the phrase “first do no harm” is derived.

The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.

These traditional, indigenous birth practices should never have been erased in the first place.

Income is perhaps the unifying indicator of health care in crisis across all the margins of America—a reliable predictor of poor health outcomes from inadequate treatment for common illnesses—leading to the final measure of all: substantially lower life expectancy.