A dispassionate look at this bill suggests that health reform actually will be good for the Medicare program.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
I want the focused, goal-oriented, real grass-roots supported, campaign mode for health reform.
Craig Crawford | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
If we can't have a public option, how can co-ops get the job done? Require everyone get health insurance and for those who can't afford private plans, give them coupons to be used only at co-ops.
Bryant Welch | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
We need to harness the uncertainty and confusion in this country for constructive purposes, exposing the puppeteers of the far right and the corporate interests that are behind them.
Craig Crawford | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
What's really irritating about Palin's proposal is that we have to have a law to reimburse doctors to talk to their patients. What?
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
If the centrist Democrats don't provide a meaningful alternative to costly, for-profit insurance, the backlash against them will be enormous. Co-ops will not be able to provide that alternative.
Craig Crawford | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Is it tragic or just plain ironic that health reform suffers along with Ted Kennedy? It was Kennedy, after all, who put Barack Obama on a winning path to the White House.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
On Friday I interviewed Steve Forbes. In a quick few minutes he claimed that people in England over 65 years of age could not receive dialysis,and that Obama wanted single payer.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Studies show that over half of all Americans are interested in promoting wellness and preventing disease. But some people are terrified that the food ...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
There is little opportunity for a dialogue in which facts are presented if the people you are talking to have already made up their minds. BUT, if you want an effective Town Hall, here's some advice.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
The latest wave of attacks on health care reform are straight from the insurance-company "playbook," a former industry vice president told reporters a...
James R. Knickman | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
In New York, an initiative is underway to align efforts across the public and private sectors to address integrated care.
Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Organizations that can't touch Obama in the ring are moving to a crowding, brawling, Frasier-like approach to the debate.
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living
Even worse than its stratospheric cost is the fact that American health care doesn't fulfill its prime directive -- it does not help people become or stay healthy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
National conservative groups organizing angry protests on health care reform at congressional town halls this week are drafting behind the "birther" m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Three Republicans dragging out health care negotiations in the Senate Finance Committee probably won't vote for the compromise bill anyway, a key comm...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
I received a mass email that exhorted the recipients to pray because of the disaster to befall on us if health care reform is passed. I went through every charge and answered it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
After nearly two weeks of delays, a health care bill passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Friday night, setting the stage for a full fl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Forget the Blue Dogs, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday. The real "villains" in the fight for health care reform are insurance compan...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Co-ops are not a bad idea -- if they are offered alongside a public option. As a replacement for them, however, they're a dealbreaker.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Conservative Blue Dog Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are celebrating their success in delaying a full floor vote on health care...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Today, the Health Care for America Now coalition is having a national call-in day. Our message? The House of Representatives needs to pass reform now, before they go home for vacation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Why offer more people health insurance, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) asked at a press conference Friday, if they might lengthen waits for doctors ...
Noelle Cigarroa Perese | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
When Senators are looking for "bipartisan" solutions to health care, and need more "time" to work on a "bipartisan" compromise, what they're really looking for is a way to kill real health care reform.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Henry Waxman is looking to resume health care negotiations Thursday night. Maybe. Waxman (D-Calif.) heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, th...
Mark Miller | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business