Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
Newsweek | Kevin Kelly | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
A healthy percentage of the uninsured, about 46 percent, work for small businesses too poor to afford insurance. And poll after poll says that fear of...
Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
It's getting late in the Senate Finance Committee's writing of a health-care bill, but not too late for Republicans on Wednesday to make one more vali...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
How Barack Obama has changed! We recently learned that President Obama has secretly made a sweetheart deal with Billy Tauzin, the former congressman ...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $700 billion health care plan that would offer tax credits to help people buy insurance, ...
Politico | CHRIS FRATES | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan to...
Los Angeles Times | Janet Hook | Posted 08.05.2009 | Business
When Congress decides how to pay for President Obama's signature healthcare initiative, some of his strongest political bastions may be footing a heav...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in a...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insura...
New York Times | MATT BAI | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Sometime in the next few weeks, Congress and the White House will descend into the labyrinthine politics of comprehensive health care reform. For Bara...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's hopes for a bipartisan health deal seemed in jeopardy Thursday as GOP senators protested his renewed suppo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Republicans in Congress are slated to unveil their health care reform plan on Wednesday, a proposal that relies heavily on private mechanisms, contain...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Our country faces significant health challenges including skyrocketing costs, declining funding for scientific research, and lack of innovation in the government's response to emerging threats.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
According to McCain's senior economic policy adviser, McCain's health care plan won't destroy the employer-based insurance system because the plan doesn't work.
New York Times | SARAH KERSHAW | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In campaigning for president, Rudolph W. Giuliani has criticized Democrats for promoting "socialized" medicine, boasted about his record as mayor of N...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics