Obama claims that anybody who could afford health insurance would surely purchase it. I'm unsure if he really believes this or is stuck in a misstatement of his own creation.
AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 02.04.2008 | Business
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Health insurer Humana Inc. posted a 57 percent surge in fourth-quarter earnings Monday from its growing government segment, a ...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Obama is right to criticize Clinton for putting forward a plan that would penalize the uninsured middle class, unless the cost can be brought down to an affordable level. Hillary's plan is a political loser.
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
This emphasis on choice by Obama and his followers seems misplaced to me. I don't think he fuly understands why the American health care system is struggling today.
Craig Stoltz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
The most interesting thing that showed up on the Healthcare08 PoliGraph jumped out in plain red and blue. Several Republicans held positions in the blue zone on some healthcare issues. Not so for Democrats.
BusinessWeek | Joseph Weber | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business
When UnitedHealthcare (UNH) told American Printing House for the Blind that its health insurance bill would jump 49.9% in 2008, Chief Financial Office...
Jim David | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
Mitt Romney, he of the perfect Mormon mishbucha, doesn't think my family is a real family. Of course, who knows what he really thinks, since his every calculated move is as sincere as a lap dance.
Larry Womack | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
As long as we allow them to, our leaders will offer us small solutions to big problems. The US health care system has class IV hemorrhaging and our leaders are tossing us band-aids.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
It's time to compare the candidates' most recent plans and initiatives to improve the health of Americans and people worldwide.
Joan Blades | Posted 01.01.2008 | Living
The vast majority of workplaces are still structured from the era when it was assumed that there was a wife at home full-time with the children.
RJ Eskow | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics
One of the most puzzling turns in the healthcare debate has been the insistence of some that mandating health coverage is a "progressive" thing to do. It's not.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
The news just broke that Dems have completely and utterly caved on the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill.
Jamie Court | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
The answer in California for politicians, who face strict term limits, is they needed cash from the medical insurance complex to extend their stay in office.
Andy Stern | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
The one single and repeatedly proven lesson Americans have learned in the decades of failed efforts of reform is simply this: the longer we wait, the worse it gets.
Donald M. Berwick and Howard Hiatt | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics
The best way to make universal coverage affordable is not to reduce care but to enhance it. It is to promise all the care that helps, BUT only the care that helps.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
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.
Kim Mance | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics
One of the biggest stressors is that my caregiving for my two boys is invisible to the U.S. economic system.
LA Times | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
When Rudolph W. Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the spring of 2000, one thing he did not have to worry about was a lack of medical insu...
Mary Kay Henry | Posted 11.15.2007 | Living
I can't believe this is what we've come to: healthcare as a stocking stuffer.
Richard Belzer | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
The overpaid, smug opinionated keepers of Wall Street's gates are, in their view, the only class of people who can explain the confusing riddle of the American economy.
Peter Smith | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business
This is the job market the Bush Economic Miracle has created. This is the future we are providing for Generation Screwed.
Donald Cohen | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
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.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.09.2007 | Living
Who's going to be enticed by $1,000 insurance policy for accidentally dying or losing a limb?
Los Angeles Times | Lisa Girion | Posted 11.09.2007 | Business
One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much mon...
Doug Bremner | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics
For the Republicans, getting sick has become equivalent to moral weakness or lack of patriotism. How messed up is that?
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Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics