It's Not about Us or Them At the same time, the more unaware we are about where our cultural GPS is positioned, the greater the likelihood that we ma...
For my 16th birthday, my reluctant mother finally agreed to let me get my ears pierced. Back then, it was a procedure performed at a doctor's office, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, ...
Alas, the Republicans aren't the only ones needing an organ transplant. The Democrats need the stomach to fight for the American people.
Our humanity, if not our common sense, tells us that something is wrong when 4 percent of the world's population consumes half of the world's health care.
In this country if you go to the emergency room, you may wait hours, if not a day or two to see an actual doctor. Why? Because these rooms are full of patients who don't have insurance.
American health care is failing, suffering with problems that jeopardize our well-being and that worsen each day. Science, tempered by compassion, once controlled medical decisions--but no longer.
According to a report by Thomson Reuters, the American health care system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, which is up to a th...
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.
Those who are opposing health care reform seem to think that if we provide services for the uninsured, that we will somehow be taking away from them.
I've lived in Europe for 20 years; my son has had juvenile diabetes for seven of those. The cost of all that health care over seven years: zero. I've seen the European system up close -- it works.
Go ahead, shoot me. I like the status quo on health care in the United States. I've got health insurance and I don't give a damn about the 47 million ...
If people still trusted the health care industry, then it would be unnecessary to brand Oprah for "crazy talk" simply because she provides a forum for ideas outside of mainstream medicine.
An advertisement outlining Canadian dissatisfaction with government run health care is met with disagreement from Canadians.
WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all custo...
Despite the world's most advanced medical technology and the heroic efforts of devoted clinicians, health care is too expensive, unjustly inaccessible and seriously harmful to many of the citizens it seeks to serve.
