Health Committee

AARP's Bait and Switch on Health Care

Martha Burk | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Martha Burk

The health committee bill would require older folks to pay some multiple of the premiums charged to younger people for the same coverage, just because of their age.

Sam Stein

Breast Feeding Debate Leaves Senators Grasping For Words (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics


Some general awkwardness occurred during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Tuesday as a few uncomfortable lawmakers...

Sam Stein

GOP Pushed For Incomplete Health Care Study, Then Politicized It: Hill Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics


On Monday afternoon, critics of a major health care overhaul seized on a report from the Congressional Budget Office showing that a Democratic reform ...