Health Care

The whole health care dust-up among Clinton, Obama and Edwards makes clear why Individual Mandate plans are likely to end up being as big a political disaster as Hillary's 1994 health reform fiasco.

One of the biggest stressors is that my caregiving for my two boys is invisible to the U.S. economic system.

This country has spent a long time on a long downward slide. The only way to recover is through hard work, sacrifice, a reordering of priorities and a rejection of the politicians who suggest there's any other way.

As Hillary said on Wednesday: "Senator Obama's plan does not, and cannot, cover all Americans. He called his plan universal, then he called it 'virtually universal,' but it is not either."

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her leading Democratic presidential rival Wednesday of flinching from the struggle to provide health care for all ...

When we've gone out and talked to AARP members, we see that health and financial security are their top domestic concerns.

In campaigning for president, Rudolph W. Giuliani has criticized Democrats for promoting "socialized" medicine, boasted about his record as mayor of N...

The days of the iron hand in the velvet glove are over. The gloves are off, and all candidates must be prepared to get down and dirty, as well as come clean about where their allegiances are.

Most Americans think they are more likely to face a serious health threat or financial threat in their lives than they are to face a serious terrorist threat.

Hillary seems to provoke a condemnation disproportionate to her sins. She is not Dick Cheney. She is not even Lynne. She is not my candidate, but I do hate the word triangulate applied to her.

American economic ideology today is dominated by those that profess almost fanatical belief in the unregulated "market" as the ultimate provider of all things good.

Anyone who's willing to stand up to greedy bosses deserves our support. A victory for one group, from Ford workers to stage-hands, raises the prospects for everyone else.

Campaigning in Iowa this week, Bill Clinton told voters they should blame him, not Hillary, for the1993 health care debacle. Putting aside the fact that Hillary has already owned up to her role in the political fiasco, is it really smart to have him stepping in front of her to take the hit for Team Clinton? It may be gallant for a husband to tell friends that the reason he and his wife are an hour late for a dinner party is because he got lost when, in fact, it's because she couldn't decide what to wear. But Hillary isn't running for Favorite Guest, she's running to be President of the United States -- a would-be Commander-in-Chief, not a little woman who needs to be protected by her big, strong man.

With his wife going through the toughest week of her presidential campaign, former President Bill Clinton tried to take some political bullets on her ...

Little-mentioned in the interminable debate about who killed health care reform is the role played by movement conservatives.

Former President Clinton said Thursday that he is to blame for his administration's failed health care plan, not his wife, who spearheaded the effort...

The endorsement of Rudy Giuliani by Pat Robertson is cause for brow-furrowing. Who are these "values voters?"

I think that it is criminal that someone like Mitt Romney can sit there and say that we have universal healthcare because if you break your arm they are going to take you to the ER even if you don't have insurance.

A bipartisan group of senators failed to reach a deal on controversial legislation expanding a children's health insurance program, setting the stage ...

Whatever you think of the White House, here's a way to help the wounded and disabled veterans who are arguably the Americans most directly on the receiving end.

In spite of the fact that during the time of Bill Hillary was ready to take a hatchet to the insurance companies, now the insurance companies are falling over themselves to shower her with dollars.

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

I am repelled and mystified by the deranged reaction that rich right-wingers are regurgitating over health care.

It's been a busy week in Washington, providing lots and lots of fodder for this week's Friday Talking Points column. After being named last week's Mos...