The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg has profiled Betsy McCaughey, trying to square the one-time Republican official's work on infection deaths and in ac...
The GOP's goal from the second the president took office was to bring him down. Their sole intention is diminishing the president's popularity and laying the groundwork for the 2010 midterms and 2012 presidential elections.
WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...
If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.
Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.
Throughout Congress there are men and women who are making decisions right now that will mean putting some people to death. Sen. Grassley is the ranking member of the Early Grave Commission.
So much has been said by those who claim to understand what "end of life care" means, and all of it has little if any root in truth. So, I will give you my personal experience with "end of life counseling."
Early in my service I was told, "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can find." Such was my not-so-subtle introduction to the need for end of life planning.
Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if sh...
Ever wonder how politicians come up with phrases like "death tax," "enhanced interrogation techniques," and "energy recovery"? It's usually a pollster...
The Republican Party announced today that it will honor the legacy of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy by continuing its campaign to defeat any prospect of health care reform.
Shirley Rish of Mesa, Ariz., met with an orthopedic specialist earlier this month hoping for relief from some pain in her wrist. Instead, she received...
Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...
Turns out Chuck Grassley was right--DEATH PANELS ARE REAL! It took the muckrakiest folks at Funny or Die to uncover them, but here they are, caught on...
My own health plan: go back to France for any life-preserving treatments I think might be worth going through, because even as an American paying full price, it's so much cheaper there.
Nothing that my senator and his commie cronies can tell me will make me believe that the government bureaucrats can run health care better than the insurance company bureaucrats.
Michael Steele is running a bit late to the latest "Let's Frighten The Villagers With Lies" party, but, as TPM's Rachel Slajda points out, he's plungi...
How many town hall meetings have gone peacefully, constructively and without a hitch? We don't know. What we've heard about again and again are these scattered incidents cherry-picked for their shock value and presented as genuine and meaningful patterns.
My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.
There is just one fact Americans need to know about our current health care system. Private health insurance companies make more money if they don't provide care than if they do.