LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer BIG SKY, Mont. - Fighting for control of the health care debate, President Barack Obama is using political tactics and...
An $80-billion deal with the drug industry that the White House thought would add momentum to its campaign for national healthcare reform has instead provoked...
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pounced on a congressional budget analysis to bolster their plan for a government-run health insurance option on Monday,...
UPDATE: Henry Waxman made Blue Dog Democrats an offer that could lead to an agreement on health care legislation after a three-hour meeting on Monday...
In one of the last civilized nations to deny universal health care to its citizens, just because we can put on a show, does not mean we should have to.
I attended my local Tea Party yesterday, and it clarified for me, well, nothing I didn't already know, or at least assume, or at least fear. The experience was, let us just say, disheartening.
The current mentality of socialized medicine will usher in a new kind of doctor and usher out many talented, gifted and important physicians who could have made contributions to health care.
Why is it that in life's most personal and private moments--sexuality, conception, birth and the dying process--the party that says it governs least always governs most?
The new ads have a decidedly upbeat tone. In the first ad to be aired, Harry tells Louise: "Well, it looks we might finally get health care reform," to which Louise responds: "It's about time."
The problem isn't a few highly specialized physicians as much as it is the gaping maw between the few zip codes where they practice and the rest of the country. This is the real class warfare.
Opponents of health care reform are eager to kill legislation and fear is their favorite weapon. Their newest scare tactic is that patients will be able to make choices about the end of their lives.
Blue Dogs view themselves as centrists. I look at the term centrist and think of politicians who are afraid to take positions on issues that might cause heartburn with swing voters.
Our country faces the best opportunity in decades to provide affordable, quality health care for all our citizens and contain spiraling costs. Our states serve as models for national reform.
Right now, you don't represent the majority of Americans on health care reform. You represent yourselves and all the health care corporations who directly or indirectly fund your career.
In their wildest dreams the Republicans cannot imagine people hating healthcare that is no longer only for the rich and the well-employed, courtesy of the insurance industry.
We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.
The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.
To get to the heart of America's healthcare challenge, we must end the longstanding system of pay-to-play politics by fundamentally reforming the role of private money in federal elections.
The Huffington Post went to President Obama's town hall in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday to learn what makes health-reform protesters really tick. In an...
Misinformation and angry mobs are not how democracy functions. Freedom of speech and assembly are certainly our rights, but they must be exercised with responsibility and accountability.
Most police officers in America do not require greased-palms for their services. But if one wishes to attend a chicken cordon bleu dinner with Senator Max Baucus of Montana, it will cost him $10,000
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