Public spending for health care goes disproportionately to seniors and those in poor health, but it is less concentrated among low-income Americans than is sometimes thought.

India has allocated almost 70 percent of its national HIV budget to prevention, focusing on high-risk sexual behavior and injecting drug use, the main drivers of the nation’s HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Sooner or later, we are all patients. This past weekend a group of journalists, doctors, advocates, health center leaders, technology experts, professors, and – yes – patients, gathered at Airlie House in Virginia to share stories and...