Senator Lieberman's response

Philip G. Baker, 10.30.2009

author of From Concept to Consumer

I sent an email to Senator Lieberman expressing my disappointment on the position he has just taken on healthcare. I noted that I was a contributor an...

I Can't Afford To Be Sick: Disabled By My Proximity To Porcelain

Kari Stoever, 11.05.2009

Managing Director, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases

How many times have you said, or heard someone else say, "I can't afford to be sick right now?" It's an overused cliche that deserves a little attention especially with the outbreak of H1N1 in most people's mind and backyards.

The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It?

Miles Mogulescu, 10.30.2009

Entertainment attorney, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, writer, activist

With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.

What Are America's Real Values?

Marian Wright Edelman, 10.30.2009

President, Children's Defense Fund

What is a child's life worth? What is a child's health worth? What is a child's spirit, battered by preventable suffering and chronic disease, worth?

Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein, 10.30.2009

Writer and researcher, Media Matters Action Network

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

The Gardasil Vaccine -- Introduction to a Series

Marcia G. Yerman, 11.05.2009

New York based writer focusing on women’s issues and the arts. Co-Founder of cultureID.

As the nation's attention is riveted on the discourse about health care reform, another debate is taking place around the Gardasil vaccine.

So What if a Public Option Leads to Single-Payer?

Sahil Kapur, 10.30.2009

Writer, Journalist

The conservative indictment against a public option is deeply ironic, and when closely examined, consists of two entirely contradictory cases about the nature of government.

Setting the Record Straight on Our Health Care Legislation

Rep. Anna Eshoo, 10.30.2009

Congresswoman (D-CA)

Jane Hamsher attributes nefarious motives to our health care reform effort and the resulting legislation. I fiercely disagree. It was carefully shaped to save lives and reduce costs.

First Ever World Pneumonia Day. Nov. 2

Dr. Pat Hibberd, 10.30.2009

Director, Center for Global Health Research at Tufts University

Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under age five around the world. It is so prevalent that the first World Pneumonia Day will establish a global call for action to tackle childhood pneumonia head on.

Health Reform: Cocktail Party Edition

D. Brad Wright, 10.30.2009

Doctoral candidate in the department of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina

The key players -- Pelosi and Reid of late -- are playing some of the best games of their respective careers.

Health Care Cooperatives Can Work

Steven Hill, 10.30.2009

Director, Political Reform Program, New America Foundation

Private, nonprofit health care cooperatives, properly designed, actually could offer quite a lot to both the left and the right, as well as to anyone who is interested in expanding health care coverage.

WATCH: The Scariest White House Halloween Costume

Matthew Filipowicz, 10.29.2009

Comedian, Cartoonist, Satirist

With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

What Catholics Want in Healthcare Reform

Jon O'Brien, 10.29.2009

President, Catholics for Choice

American Catholics can picture themselves as patients, and want to be able to get birth control and condoms at their doctor. They also think they can speak for themselves.

The Surgeon General Is Confirmed!

Linda Bergthold, 10.30.2009

Health policy consultant

Dr. Regina Benjamin has finally been confirmed for the post of Surgeon General. And the reasons for the delay have been varied, contradictory, and byzantine.

Cable News Makes Bad Politics

Tom Alderman, 10.29.2009

Media, Presentation and Speech trainer, speech writer and founder of MediaPrep

Every news provider and we, as media trainers, whose job is to prep people who talk to news providers, know one essential truth: it's all about story-...

I'm the Poster Child for Public Healthcare

Lara M. Gardner, 10.29.2009

writer and attorney living in Portland, Oregon.

I sincerely hope our legislators can get their act together and create a health plan that provides health care for every American so all of us can experience true and complete care, as I did.

Athletes Risk Lifetime Of Suffering From Head Injuries

Scott Mendelson, M.D., 10.29.2009

A well-known cause of dementia is dementia pugilistica, or what has commonly been called being "punch drunk." In some cases, the presentation is virtually indistinguishable from Alzheimer's dementia.

Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition

Rep. Diana DeGette, 10.29.2009

U.S. Representative from Colorado

Potentially egregious anti-trust violations in the insurance industry should not be permitted, and the government should be given the power to protect the public from harmful behavior that drives up prices.

Jon Kyl Locks Constituents Out, but Will Arizona Opt Out?

Auburn McCanta, 10.29.2009

Huffington Post Blogger

Senator Jon Kyl recently quipped to NBC's David Gregory on Meet the Press, "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."

Olympia Snowe Still Opposes Public Option Because it's Too Good

Jonathan Weiler, 10.28.2009

Professor of International Studies at UNC Chapel Hill

Snowe's blindly ideological view on health care asserts, against common sense, that even when the outcome is likely to be inferior, we should prefer "private" solutions.

I Am Not Paying Higher Taxes to Help the Uninsured

Blake Fleetwood, 10.28.2009

Former Reporter for the New York Times and Daily News

No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.