If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. Companies don't add units without combining, consolidating, streamlining, and reducing.
Lance Simmens | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care?
Lara M. Gardner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
I sincerely hope our legislators can get their act together and create a health plan that provides health care for every American so all of us can experience true and complete care, as I did.
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.
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if sh...
Etan Thomas | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
How can anyone be in favor of a health care system in which the patients are treated according to the amount of coverage their insurance company provides?
Dean Garfield | Posted 09.13.2009 | Technology
It is time to marshal industry and scientific innovation to advance our key terrestrial priorities. The deep cultural divisions of the 1960s are largely behind us, but challenges remain.
Dr. Jordan Shlain | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
The government has no problem regulating Wall Street, nuclear energy, the health care system and the legal system. Where are the regulations for maintaining personal health?
newsweek.com | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Go ahead, shoot me. I like the status quo on health care in the United States. I've got health insurance and I don't give a damn about the 47 million ...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, citing fresh evidence the recession is winding down, says the country's future economic prosperity depends on bu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics
In crafting health care legislation, the Obama White House may have "over-learned the lesson of the Clinton years," giving too much deference to Congr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
The Obama White House would not commit on Friday to opposing a health care reform proposal that did not include one of the president's favored compone...
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Forty-five House Democrats in the party's moderate-to-conservative wing have protested the secretive process by which party leaders in their chamber a...
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
President Obama should declare health care a service for all Americans rather than a right.
Stuart Blumin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
History will identify the Bush-Cheney administration as the last holdout of the Age of Carbon, using its crucial eight years to block every effort to end the reign of fossil fuels.
Deane Waldman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living
Blaming gets you what you think you want right now, not what you really need or want long term. When something bad happens - terrorists blow up the T...
John Geyman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
As the costs of health care surge ever higher, the financial barrier to care has clearly become the biggest impediment of all.
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.28.2008 | Home
We have had this talk before but apparently lots of you missed class that day. If you review the post "The Future of Healthcare" as well as others pri...
Deane Waldman | Posted 06.26.2008 | 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...
Andrew L. Yarrow | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
How did two proud symbols of American greatness from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries become emblematic of deep social and economic problems and the nation's slide from global pre-eminence?
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even disco...
New York Times | Andrew Pollack | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
There is a new nuclear arms race under way -- in hospitals. Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for...
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business