Born-again Republican and Blue Dog Democratic deficit hawks are disingenuous, crying fowl about proposed deficit-neutral health care spending of $1 trillion spread over a decade, while ignoring trillions in deficit-ballooning war expenditures, tax breaks and corporate largesse. Democratic reformers have led an equally dishonest discussion around health care reform, failing...

They have been ostracized and marginalized in the great U.S. health care reform debate, but now a group of doctors, many from Physicians for a National Health Care Program, are hitting the road and taking action, and they visited Denver on September 14. They will arrive in Washington on...

Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and author (The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It), suggests a simple, less costly alternative to...

Cries of "government-run health care" serve as distraction from the fact of "Wall St.-run health care" as surely as "Stop the vote count" in 2000 aimed to subvert an election. Republicans' rule of dominion: when you can't win fairly, create chaos and destruction -- blow things up.

Former CIGNA executive-turned-whistle-blower...

Hours before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. announced the postponement of a vote on health care reform until after the August recess, nine freshmen senators wrote a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus stating the need to prioritize cost containment in the health...

Dialogue around health care reform recalls 1980s Saturday Night Live skits about a parallel universe called Bizarro World, where perverse meaning prevails and language is stood on its head. References then included presidential appointments, e.g., a Secretary of Interior fond of strip mining and air...

Democrats at the fore of shaping health care reform policy concede the issue from the start by failing to put forth the best possible case for reform. Instead, they have begun the discussion with compromise.

Even as Democrats fail to frame the issue, the failed U.S. multipayer health insurance...

Many women and their families are grateful for their lives to the few like Dr. George Tiller, without whom they could not have resumed life with their families.

Most often, contempt for women drives zealots on the right, who frame issues around reproduction to control, demonize and intimidate women and...

False assumptions that drive the current U.S. health care reform debate are often expressed as common buzzwords:

1) Choice - To free-market advocates, choice applies to "affordable" private insurances -- often, inadequate minimum benefit health insurances that render many at health and financial risk. Private insurances further limit choice of...

Paralysis around health care reform is exacerbated by specious rhetoric surrounding Single-Payer health care. Lazy media fail to look behind corrupted rhetoric, while corporate interests spin the debate to serve their bottom lines.

Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare, a report by FAIR reveals that...

Unleashing an era of unfettered corporate greed, in 1995 Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay herded lobbyist contributions to Republicans, in exchange for corporate-authored legislation to overcome much regulatory law. "Project Relief" was their brand for relieving corporations of regulatory oversight. "People who are pro-free enterprise should support people who are...

Colorado's University Hospital is the most recent of 8 area hospitals to close its psychiatric unit in the past decade. The Denver Post relates that hospital psych unit closures are occurring across the country "at a breathtaking pace."

Similarly, in 2004 it was reported...

U.S. Taxpayers rightfully question the insanity of shoveling $700 billion (more accurately, several trillion) of corporate welfare to the high-rollers on Wall St., when true health care reform for all could contribute significantly to U.S. economic recovery and provide immediate relief to those very same taxpayers.

The ability to...

To many, the 2008 election represented a fervent prayer for meaningful change in Washington, for restoration of the people's democracy and the end of corporate looting of the treasury. The U.S. corporatocracy reigns supreme - corporate profiteering steers most public policy, from finance, war and energy to health care. The...

Failed U.S. health care must be regarded a major contributor to our systemic economic crisis. Indeed, the excesses of Wall St. and the subprime mortgage catastrophe mirror U.S. health care policy -- both are typified by privatized profit (for investors and insurers), and socialized risk (for...

McCain relinquished any "maverick" credentials when he capitulated to Neocons and Christian Dominionists with his choice of a running mate.

Neocons first identified Sarah Palin as a likely candidate to advance their agenda of preemptive warfare and militaristic colonialism.

Worldwide hegemony envisioned by neocons resembles hegemony...

The "right-to-life" movement that elevates embryonic life above women's lives is more accurately termed "right-to-prenatal-life." Aside from South Dakota's attempt to outlaw abortion outright, with select exceptions for the health and life of women, one of the most extreme 2008 anti-abortion ballot measures is the so-called...

Once again, the media and even Democratic candidate Barack Obama, have failed to follow-up on McCain's stated opposition to abortion by questioning his equal opposition to contraception - the primary means to reduce the rate of abortion.

Nancy Keenan of NARAL Pro-Choice America cites at least...

A red herring raised every election cycle: "Democrats will take away our hunting guns."

National Public Radio (9-24-08) recently spoke to Democrat Louis Brandenburg in southwestern Pennsylvania, whose friends are voting for McCain-Palin because of "the hunting issue." "I can't understand what happened to our party....the...

The American Medical Association's proposed health care reform goes by the name Voice for the Uninsured and advocates government-subsidized purchase of private insurance. It sounds remarkably like the Massachusetts plan that mandates purchase of private insurance, reimbursed by government in the form of subsidies, vouchers...