On a Thursday afternoon conference call with reporters, one of Barack Obama's top economic advisers put out a direct challenge to John McCain. After r...
Eli Pariser | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
However we ask the question, our members prefer the strategy of pushing for national public health insurance.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
A new form of grassroots involvement: highly secretive listening tours where no one but their best friends are invited to come. Cool.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Without asking its members, MoveOn's leaders have elected to join the steering committee of, and pledge at least $500,000 of its members' money to, a new health care coalition.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
In the past month, tens of thousands of Americans have told us they want quality, affordable health care for all. Now it's time to ask Congress.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
Edward's much needed and almost never heard populist message didn't mark him as a threat. The bare possibility that many Americans actually got his message about poverty and neglect made him a threat.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
I've been given a copy of the most recent draft of the Democratic Party's platform. I'm told that this is getting close to the end. There is good stuff and bad stuff. Here are the highlights.
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.
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
"Health care." In media and politics, the phrase has become a cliche that easily slides into rhetoric and wonkery. The tweaking Washington debate...
Carolyn Anderson | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living
Research shows that we have more control over how our bodies' age then previously thought. Not only can you live longer than your parents, you can live more fully as you age. The determining factor is lifestyle.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living
As brain fitness and training becomes mainstream and new "brain trainers" appear, we can observe a number of trends given significant market growth and recent research findings.
Jeffrey Levi | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
How do Americans expect to compete in the global economy if our workforce isn't healthy enough to be competitive? The good news is, many of the US's most prevalent medical problems are very preventable.
Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
There no sense of decency among the rich and their enablers in the government and in politics, and in the chattering classes who worship before the altar of market fundamentalism.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
This fall, Americans will discover an inconvenient truth about McCain -- he wants you to lose your employer-based health care. He thinks you aren't sufficiently conscious about the cost, and you're using too much of it.
Doug Bremner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living
"What do I have a lawyer for if you can't help me?" Salim Hamdan asked his lawyers, rhetorically.
John Geyman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Last week's action by Congress to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill was a landmark step toward reversing the tide of privatization of the program over the last three decades.
Lester Feder | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
In the New York Post, political consultant Dick Morris cries that Obama wants to provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants as part of his plan to cover the 47 million uninsured Americans.
Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Last February, found 78% of voters believe that health insurance companies "put profits before people." It turns out that a few months later the CEO of WellPoint, said yes, that's true!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Health Care For America Now, which is a "national grassroots campaign organizing millions of Americans to win a guarantee of quality, affordable healt...
Lester Feder | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home
Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Paul Armentano | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
If rats can deduce that whole cannabis works better as a medicine than a single synthesized molecule, what's stopping our politicians from reaching this same conclusion?
CNN | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
John McCain devoted a substantial chunk of his town hall meeting Thursday to drawing contrasts with Barack Obama on health care policy, stressing his ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
For a relatively small amount of money, we can provide primary health care to every American in need of it through an expansion of the successful Federally Qualified Health Center program.
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HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics