WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced Thursday that community health centers around the country will get $150 million to help uninsured Ame...

Let's not allow mental illness to be further stigmatized by events like the Newtown tragedy, nor to distract us from the solutions that are closer at hand. It's a lot faster, easier, and cheaper to reduce the number of assault weapons in circulation.

Overall, the rate and number of people without insurance coverage dropped in 2011 for the first time since 2007, in spite of the recession, contrary to most expert predictions.

Thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld bans in public funding and insurance coverage of abortion in three separate cases. Since then, these decisions have left millions of women unable to access legal healthcare when they need it.

A piece of the health care bill that the Finance Committee's bipartisan negotiators are developing would discourage employers from hiring low-income and minority workers, women, and workers with disabilities.