If the government Plan for Healthcare describes only the effects in healthcare and fails to consider other, outside consequences, reject it. Accept no substitutes.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living
Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma.
Deane Waldman | Posted 10.31.2008 | Living
I constantly write: YOU DECIDE. Do not put your trust in Washington; in those seeking your vote (who will say or promise anything); in self-styled ex...
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living
Please answer the title question for YOU, not as an academic, theoretical discussion or a test in school. What would you personally give, pay, or do ...
John Geyman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living
We are told regularly by advocates of the free market that more choice, as granted by the unfettered private marketplace, is the key to greater efficiency and value for consumers. So what does this look like?
John Geyman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
As the market for employer-sponsored health insurance continues to shrink, insurers are now targeting healthier people in the individual market, especially in the 20 to 30s and 50 to 64 age groups.
abcnews.com | Julian Kesner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living
After a car accident left Michelle Katz, a Washington, D.C., nursing student, with persistent back pain and numbness in 1998, she consulted a neurosur...
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home
You go to a doctor complaining of headaches. She gives you morphine and sends you home pain-free (and high). Is she practicing good medicine? Ridicul...
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.02.2008 | Home
Most people assume that universal health care will save money. They may be right. May be. Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and Taiwan...
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
"Universal health care" doesn't mean to you what it means to them. To Presidential hopefuls and self-styled expert pundits, it means universal health ...
Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg, Ashley Surdin | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
In California's San Fernando Valley, Everardo Orozco, 53, who has AIDS, exhausted his medical benefits and can no longer afford the drugs that are kee...
Merrill Goozner | Posted 11.28.2007 | Living
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed a resolution asking Medicare and the VA to pay for expensive lung cancer screening tests using CT scans. Local hospitals are already jumping on the bandwagon.
Merrill Goozner | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
The NIH insists the trial is well-designed. But when it comes to conflicts of interest, appearances matter. The expenditure of $200 million in taxpayer money should have resulted in a definitive answer.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush's brother Jeb...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail...
The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns...
It started with the fist bump seen 'round the world. Soon...
A revolutionary device that can harness...
Deane Waldman | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics