“New Life for the Public Option” is the headline of Dan Balz’s excellent article in Sunday’s Washington Post.  It’s not an accident that this powerful idea has made yet another comeback.  And it is not surprising that public and Congressional support, always strong, has surged again, just as the...

This is the moment when Senators Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that

• makes health insurance truly affordable for all Americans,
• creates a strong public option to give private insurers real competition,
• and...

When President Obama speaks before the Congress on Wednesday night, he will tell the nation in more specific detail what he wants to do to make the health care system work for everyone. 

He’d had better pledge to make sure good health insurance is affordable for all Americans –...

Let’s get a few things straight:   

• Until last year, Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s health care bill (co-authored with with Rep. John Dingell) was a bill known as Medicare for All.   Not expensive private insurance for some, but Medicare [a public insurance plan] for All.
• Senator Kennedy encouraged candidate...

I pledge that soon I will buy a new, fuel-efficient car -- built in America by UAW workers.

I'm asking you to take this pledge with me and get others to do so too.

If enough Americans take this pledge -- and pass it on --...

Like most participants in President Obama's Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our Health Care for...

Growing voter concerns over the financial crisis are closely connected to worries about health care. The latest Institute for America's Future Op Ed ad in Tuesday's NY Times links the two issues directly, with the headline: WILL WE LET CONSERVATIVES DO TO HEALTH CARE WHAT THEY DID TO BANKING?...

On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched - for Health Care for America Now! -- at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America's Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign,...

Yesterday Arizona Sen. John McCain delivered what his handlers were hyping as a major address on health care. McCain's plan is a dangerous fraud.

He wants voters to think he is going after health care cost inflation. In reality, he wants to dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers...

Last week, the Economic Policy Institute released an important analysis of Jacob Hacker's Health Care for America (HCFA) plan by the respected health economics team at the Lewin Group. As you can read in the EPI press release, Lewin found that HCFA would cover everyone in America, while...

At Saturday's health care forum for presidential candidates, John Edwards was bold, detailed and specific--but didn't diagnose the problem.

Barack Obama was vague--but stressed that no president can do it without the people.

Dennis Kucinich diagnosed the problem, and pushed immediate transformation.

Hillary Clinton, surprisingly, forcefully adopted Kucinich's diagnosis (before...

We've been working for months to pull together today's press conference launching an important new plan for "Health Care for America," written by Yale professor Jacob Hacker. The voters made it clear in last year's elections that they wanted solutions to big domestic economic problems -- like the health...