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...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Why not create a new national mission, on the scale of the mission to the Moon? We'll need to study, identify, and reduce the use of unneeded and harmful medical procedures within ten years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
The phone rang toward the end of Max Baucus' meeting Tuesday night: It was President Obama. Obama has been pushing for a health care bill before Cong...
Ruth Sherman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Clients come to me when they want help selling themselves and their ideas. I work from one primary line of reasoning: What's In It For Me, a.k.a., WIIFM. Policy makers should do the same.
John Zogby | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Health care has taken center stage in Washington, and a new poll gives unique insight into how Americans feel about this hot-button issue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Key negotiators in the Senate Finance Committee refused to set a date for their version of health care reform after their Tuesday meeting, but said th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee met behind closed doors Monday as they worked to become the third and final House committee to approve ...
Noelle Cigarroa Perese | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Imagine that: being told that my deafness, which makes up a huge part of my identity, is a "pre-existing condition" which I could be denied access to care for.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
While the bill represents an incremental improvement, it will leave an ongoing humanitarian problem as well as a strain on the health care system.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Under the new House proposal for health care reform, blue states will be picking up more than their share of the tab, according to a new study from th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds wide public support for overhauling health care this year. There is, however, concern about its high costs and the i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics