Rather than serious consideration of how to provide health care access to all, discussion of U.S. health care reform has frequently been reduced to political calculation, driven by big-money stakeholders.

WASHINGTON -- The White House is telling Democrats to go on offense over health care and taxes. That's after the Supreme Court upheld the constitut...

WASHINGTON -- Three years after Democrats began crafting health care reform, nearly 18 months after the president signed it into law, and eight months...

WASHINGTON — Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insura...

WASHINGTON -- Disagreements have broken out within the Senate Democratic caucus over Majority Leader Harry Reid’s endorsement of a proposed change t...

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the Hill are growing increasingly convinced and, in some cases, concerned that in an effort to offset the cost of repealing...

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats expressed a rare touch of nonchalance Wednesday as House Republicans voted to repeal last year's health care ove...

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and def...

The Affordable Care Act is affordable not just for consumers; it's also affordable for taxpayers. The Deficit Commission should not have to re-fight last year's health care debate.

Health reform opponents want to spook policy-makers into backing down from implementing the new law and thereby delivering to American health care consumers the new rights and options they deserve.

Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and Victoria Kennedy, the late senator's wife, are expected to be named co-chairs this week of a $125 mill...

Now the challenge will be to keep the focus and energy on improving the situation so that some day the US will have a health care system comparable to that existing in every other civilized country.

Congress has a responsibility to ensure consumers have the information they need under the new law. Every American consumer should know they will have substantial new protections this year.

Pop Quiz: You're a law-abiding citizen whose family is completely at the mercy of a band of ruffians who do whatever they want, whenever they want. Ar...

President Obama is today negotiating for his political life. The pundits claim he is "all-in" on the health care bill, and that its defeat would be the practical end to his presidency. So here's a pop-quiz.

Democratic lawmakers, from the leadership on down, are facing what many describe as an unprecedented amount of political pressure as the party scrambl...

The White House begins its campaign to get skeptical Democrats on board health care reform on Thursday afternoon when the president plans to sit down ...

A longtime Republican adviser suggested on Monday that the GOP should switch tacks on health care reform -- rather than continue to vilify the process...

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it w...

In the aftermath of President Obama's White House health-care summit, it's clear that both sides are certain they are right on substance. Where they d...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's top health policy aide laid out a way forward today and said reform should be close to finished by Easter recess. Congre...

One of the most powerful union officials in the country is urging Senate Democratic leaders to craft an entirely new health care bill and pass it usi...

In a strikingly candid assessment of the politics of health care, DCCC chief Chris Van Hollen said in an interview that the Senate bill's brand may be...

Democrats fretting over the effect that the Massachusetts Senate race could have on health reform are now seriously debating what would happen to the ...

WASHINGTON -- The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republican...