The health care reform bill now being debated in the Senate must include a provision that sets a minimum medical loss ratio to keep insurers from gouging consumers and leaving patients without the care they need.
This week there is yet another attempt to introduce a "public option" in health care that could pass the Senate. It's not really a public option. It's not really new. But it just might do the job.
Much has been made of the Obama administration's decision to defy a California judge's order that they enroll a lesbian federal employee's partner as her health-insurance beneficiary.
Targeting the executive pay of health care insurance executives is like going after AA baseball players for steroid abuse: Everyone knows that's not where the real action is. Today's Gordon Geckos are not flocking to the health insurance industry.
Marvin Weinbaum, a scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute and an Afghanistan expert who visited the White House during the months President Obama was crafting his new AfPak policy, recently spoke to a group of journalists.
Comparing abortion clinics to concentration camps diminishes the memory of those who perished, using their suffering for an unrelated political purpose, while generating a rationale for the murder of abortion providers.
I propose an entirely new group for you to deal with -- the "deathers." These are folks like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannerty who are trying to scare us to death.
Sarah Palin's recent, careful elevation of a foundational conspiracy theory used by extremists to demonize the President warrants unequivocal condemnation and study from across the political spectrum.
In the wake of recent Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, many wonder whether the fabled Obama youth machine will stay motivated when Obama presumably comes up for re-election in 2012.
When it comes to releasing photos of torture, closing Guantanamo and excluding abortion coverage from health care legislation, principle comes into direct conflict with what is practical.
Who is our President? Is it Obama the liberal or Obama the centrist? To me, the answer is as obvious as it is displeasing to both the hard left and hard right: Barack Obama is a pragmatic man of the center-left.
The end game of any major legislative fight, such as what we're going through on health care, is what I call the crazy season. Here are some general rules to help you understand the season a little bit more.
The thought of Sarah Palin perpetuating the utterly debunked myth that Barack Obama may not be a U.S. citizen somehow seems, even after all we've heard from her, oddly unfathomable.
Looking to a future that breaks the mold built by Massachusetts, we see the possibility of a single payer system that makes our fragmented care whole and redefines our standards.
When you clear away baseless threats that legalizing same-sex marriage somehow has an effect on how religions handle marriages in their faiths, all that's left for those opposed to same-sex marriage is bigotry.
Alan Khazei represents a rare opportunity to elect a bridge builder with a proven ability to work inside Washington, while also galvanizing outside pressure to effectively pass meaningful legislation.
Nobody thinks that people who die in head-on collisions do so for some greater good. There's no moral to that story. They just die. But when soldiers die it's not just an accident. We need to remember that.
Members of Congress should not have access to taxpayer-funded health care when they are actively denying these very people quality care of their own.
