The public is ready for health care reform, thanks to the enduring presidential campaign and their own personal, often horrific, experiences with the health care system.
Washington Post | Ceci Connolly | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Talk to the chief executives of America's preeminent health-care institutions, and you might be surprised by what you hear: When it comes to medical c...
ABC News | DAN CHILDS | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Last year at this time, health coverage may well have been among the last things on Terri Rushing's mind. Her husband, David, was 55 years old and wo...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Health care reform is a vital part of rebuilding the economy and expanding America's middle class. We have to do it now -- precisely because economic times are so tough.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
The push to pass the Obama agenda has begun, months before the president-elect even takes office. Health Care for America Now is out with a new adver...
The Ballot Box | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home
A Democrat, she voted for President Bush in 2004, partially over national security. "I bought into the whole fear thing. By 2006 I knew it was a big mistake, and I'll never do that again."
John Geyman | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
While the so-called "debate" over health care reform heats up, the only real option to reform health care -- single-payer national health insurance (NHI) -- is being largely overlooked.
Don McCanne | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
Obama has said that if we were starting from scratch, he would recommend a single payer system. He's right. The current financing system is a disaster. We should scrap it and replace it with a Medicare that covers all at a price we can afford.
Art Levine | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Families USA has compiled a one-stop-shopping guide to influencing national and local call-in radio shows, complete with contact phone numbers, strategic pointers and talking points.
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home
What a disappointment. Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scar...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
The current system is unraveling -- that much is known. And the two candidates have very different plans to fix it. Here are some things voters should know about them.
Erik Ose | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics
Biden's acceptance speech proved what the citizens of Delaware have known for a long time: Biden is a regular Joe with all-American family values who also happens to be a Senator.
Joe McCannon and Maureen Bisognano | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Despite the world's most advanced medical technology and the heroic efforts of devoted clinicians, health care is too expensive, unjustly inaccessible and seriously harmful to many of the citizens it seeks to serve.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
It's pretty clear that McCain's approach to remedying the healthcare system is not purely a market one, nor does Obama's involve a government takeover to bring about reform.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
With private insurance, every provider along the way gets their nickel, even if none of it is actually helping the patient: an unsustainable system.
Michele McNeil | Posted 02.14.2008 | Home
Perhaps the single most important thing that the next president can do for schools has little to do with education, at least on its face. It's reforming health care.
Irwin Redlener, M.D. | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics
If Hillary becomes the Democratic nominee, the Obama campaign has just packaged an ad that could be used, essentially unedited, by the Republicans next fall.
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Every parent, no matter who they are and where they live, can easily have the kind of trauma over the health of a child that we had. And every parent should have the medical care that we got. It's just wrong if they don't.
Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
Little-mentioned in the interminable debate about who killed health care reform is the role played by movement conservatives.
Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
Saddam Hussein never killed 18,000 Americans or anything close. Why does the U.S. cower in fear when confronted with the insurance industry?
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Jeffrey M. Sandman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics