While Americans clamor for jobs, House Republican Leadership has instead opted to hold its umpteenth vote to deny families and small businesses access to quality, affordable health care. Despite the GOP's relentless opposition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has already improved the lives of more than 100 million...

House Speaker John Boehner set out to preside over a do-nothing Congress, and he has succeeded. As this week's scheduled repeal vote of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows, Boehner is an over-achiever. Depending on who's counting, this is something like the 38th Obamacare repeal vote.

"We've got 70 new...

For people who were blown away to learn recently that the 11 largest global pharmaceutical companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the last decade, here's another measure of the industry's greed: the same companies paid their chief executive officers a combined $1.57 billion...

Here's an outrage that must be changed: Big Pharma has been systematically price-gouging the Medicare program for seniors and people with disabilities -- and raking in billions in excessive profits. The 11 largest global drug companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the 10 years ending in 2012,...

Prescription drug companies spend more than 19 times as much on marketing as they do on basic research. With prescription drug ads airing continuously in the U.S., the cost of medicines has soared. Drug makers charge customers in the U.S. -- especially the government -- vastly more for...

We already knew House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan can't give up on his dream of ending Medicare as we know it to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and corporate special interests. What most folks didn't know, because the media haven't reported it, is that Ryan's 2014 budget...

The editors of the National Review call Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich "dishonorable" for deciding to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. So much for the governor's status as an influential conservative voice and a potential GOP presidential candidate, say the mouthpieces of the extreme...

When National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre called on Congress to place an armed guard in every school in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, it showed that he has no intention of doing anything to stop deranged people from using military-style weapons to kill people...

For supporters of the urgent push for sensible gun laws, the fierce national battle over health care is a good example of how folks can beat the odds.

One of the most extraordinary things about the campaign to win Obamacare was the sheer will of its supporters -- the ability...

Speaker Boehner's "Plan B" deficit package vote is a political stunt designed to feign leadership instead of doing the hard work at the bargaining table with President Obama.

The inadequacies of Boehner's Plan B are obvious -- and his scheduled vote on the tax portion of the proposal is...

People in Washington are talking about raising Medicare costs for some beneficiaries. That's the wrong way to address our budget deficit. Instead we should allow Medicare to use its marketplace clout to negotiate better prices or rebates for prescription drugs. That would produce significant savings.

Proposals to raise seniors' costs,...

The hypocrisy of Lloyd Blankfein, a Wall Street banker, and other corporate leaders who have inserted themselves into the debate over major tax and spending decisions under consideration in Congress is nothing short of repugnant. Blankfein's Goldman Sachs got billions from the federal government during the Wall Street

Although the election is behind us, the Republicans and Corporate America have rolled out a front group that's promoting the proposals of failed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a way to resolve the fiscal showdown. Check out the comparison chart below.

Echoing ideas of Romney and "you're on...

After two years of raging debate about health care and the most expensive and polarizing presidential election campaign in our nation's history, Obamacare won on Nov. 6, and it's here to stay.

This election secures the guarantee of high quality, affordable health care for every American,...

In the presidential foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney said the U.S. needs a "robust strategy to help the world of Islam and other parts of the world reject [the kind of] radical, violent extremism" that fuels terrorism. No argument there. But here in America, we're wrestling with a...

You can't be president of the United States if you don't want to be the president of everyone, but that's what Republican candidate Mitt Romney said in a remarkably arrogant speech to a closed-door high-donor fundraiser -- all captured on video.

As has been widely reported and...

The Democrats threw down the gauntlet at their convention in Charlotte this week, putting health care front and center and warning the Republicans that they won't get away with more of the health care fear-mongering they've been stirring up for years. This strategy was solidified on the second night of...

The Republican governors who are making noise about not expanding Medicaid are playing pure politics. They don't like Obamacare and have attacked it for 2-1/2 years in the media, Congress and the courts. But the Affordable Care Act is here to stay, and even the biggest partisans should admit that...

Tuesday Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to force a woman to have the baby of a rapist, a policy supported by Mitt Romney. Yesterday women in America gained greater control over their health care choices thanks to an expanded list of no-cost preventive health services...

Republican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey set a new standard for ridiculousness yesterday when he explained that he was on the fence about whether to expand Medicaid under Obamacare but that his advisers were still considering "the most efficient way to do it from a cost...