Better: The Malcolm Gladwell of the Medical World Offers His Thoughts on Health Care

Alex Remington, 11.22.2009

Pop culture guru and Yahoo Sports baseball blogger

Atul Gawande is a doctor who writes for the New Yorker. Or perhaps, at this point in his career, he's a journalist who also happens to be a doctor. H...

It's Too Early to Celebrate the Senate Health Care Vote

Mitchell Bard, 11.21.2009

Writer and Filmmaker

I swear, I find no no joy in being Debbie Downer. I really wish I could celebrate the Senate's 60-39 vote to begin the debate on health care legislati...

Some Good News About Health Reform

Linda Bergthold, 11.21.2009

Health policy consultant

You may feel daunted by the number of pages in these health reform bills, not to mention the legislative language that is often impossible to decipher...

Integrating the Best Ideas from Left and Right

Linda Buzzell, 11.21.2009

Psychotherapist, co-editor "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind"

As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.

Health Care Rationing: Why the "R" Word is a Red Herring

N. E. Marsden, 11.21.2009

Educator specializing in media research

it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.

New Moon Cast Members On Kristen & Rob, And Health Care

Liz Glover, 11.21.2009

reporter at The Washington Times

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Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant, 11.21.2009

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.

What Is PTSD?: A Post-Hasan Primer

Scott Mendelson, M.D., 11.20.2009

Author of Beyond Alzheimer's

Claims that mental health workers are at risk for PTSD from treating their patients add an unnecessary layer of confusion to the question of how we can best serve our veterans.

How Does It Feel To Be Told You Can't Have A Test?

Kim Stagliano, 11.20.2009

Author "All I Can Handle. I'm No Mother Teresa." Fall 2010 Skyhorse Publishing

America, how does it feel to wake up and learn that you can't have healthcare tests that you think you or your loved one needs?

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

Michael Wolff, 11.20.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily...

Lieberman Exploring New Ways to Be a Dick

Andy Borowitz, 11.20.2009

BorowitzReport.com

As the health care reform bill makes its way through the U.S. Senate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman said today that he was "actively exploring" new ways to be as big a dick as humanly possible.

Twilight: New Moon Werewolf Denied Health Care

Matthew Filipowicz, 11.20.2009

Comedian, Cartoonist, Satirist

The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened last night, and already swarms of movie goers have packed theaters to see the continuing saga of vampires, werewolv...

The Price of Physician Fees Around the World

D. Brad Wright, 11.20.2009

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

This is arguably the most subjective part of the health care system. Do some countries value their physicians more than others? What about the emphasis on primary care versus specialties?

The Real Reason Obama Isn't Making Much Progress

Johann Hari, 11.19.2009

Columnist, London Independent

The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.

First Do No Harm: Connecting The Dots Between Environmentalism And Health Care Reform

John DeCock, 11.21.2009

President, Clean Water Action

If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?

Health Care Reform: Will Real Statesmen and Women Stand Up?

Denise Dennis, 11.19.2009

Health Care Reform: Will Real Statesmen and Stateswomen Please Stand Up? What would Senators Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Mary Lan...

The Ersatz Public Option

Robert Reich, 11.19.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."

New Republican Tactic: Scare Women Over Breast Cancer

Julie Menin, 11.19.2009

Host of "Give and Take," seen on NBC In New York and juliemenin.com

Republicans have found a new scapegoat in the debate over health care reform. First it was the death panels. Now it is the fear mongering over "ratio...

Good News on Healthcare, Moving Toward a More Just America

Stewart Acuff, 11.19.2009

Director of Organizing, AFL-CIO

Last night's scoring of the Senate healthcare bill -- which includes a public option -- by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is great news for pro...

Obama Gets 11-Dimensional Chess Win; Epic Fail for Media, GOP

Matt Osborne, 11.20.2009

Blogs at osborneink.com.

The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.

Trying to Put Genie Back in the Bottle

Philip Lee Miller, 11.21.2009

Founder and Medical Director of Los Gatos Longevity Institute

The current uproar regarding the task force recommendations on breast cancer screening highlights how guidelines have a tendency to insinuate themselves into the fabric of bureaucratic mandates.