WASHINGTON — An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obama's health care law by bailing out a program for peo...

Now that the government has secured unprecedented power over us, a new era has dawned for liberals, who will now have a new confidence to pursue countless other long-deferred projects of social engineering.

Without the mandate, the costs of taking care of our own may become unsustainable. Striking it down thus would be a step toward the potential repeal of the Emergency Medical Treatment Act -- a repeal that would, for many, be a death trap.

Partisan polarization creates gridlock. And gridlock has become the new norm in American politics. The only way out, given the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution, is for one party to win control of everything.

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...

One could design a national health care system akin to treatment-by-vending-machine: put in your condition and a credit card, and it spits out a medicine, no discussion needed. But is that really best for patients?

Fortune-telling aside, if we empower patients with both the instrument to choose and acquire their care, and the way to do so responsibly -- we may see health care spending inching towards sanity

What Orrin Hatch chose to do in speaking of the health care law as he did not only belittled him personally, it illustrates what intelligent and perfectly reasonable public servants have to do in this political climate to continue to serve.

NEW YORK -- Even though the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" has no chance of passing the Senate and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev....

WASHINGTON -- Republicans pushing to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul warn that 650,000 jobs will be lost if the law is allowed to...

Repealing the new national health care reform law will explode the national deficit by $230 billion by 2021. Tea Partiers must be pretty sore at these charlatans of fiscal conservatism.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans who requested millions of dollars worth of earmarks in the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 are now calling ...

Democrats in Congress were prepared to absorb defeats last night. But there were some surprise losers who shared the honors with them.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them ...

Because the outcome is likely to be close but not all that important for legislative issues, questions of spin, interpretation, expectations and positioning are what now make this election important.

While the direction of Obama's presidency may be difficult to explain, it has demonstrated the narrow bandwidth in which American politics occurs: a very limited policy space ranging from the center to the right.

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.