What do those terms mean and how are President Obama's and Governor Romney's vision for health care different?
The past week a member of my family had a medical emergency. One gets to thinking and reevaluating priorities when faced with family crisis like this.
House Republican freshmen have suddenly discovered a distaste for demagoguery over Medicare cuts and a desire for civility and calm discussion about t...
What we eat, the stress in our lives, our exercise habits and our connectedness with other human beings are more decisive than anything the health care system can do.
By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Catholic bishops will not join efforts to repeal the new health care law, even though...
The idea of universal healthcare, or at the very least, providing more accessible healthcare for the United States' poorest families, is a hotly-deb...
There was indeed a great victory last night, the baton was not dropped. But we cannot celebrate too long because the race is not over.
Today is THE DAY for health care reform, and this page will bring you all the breaking news, tweets, photos, and video, all in one place. Flip thr...
In 2000, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium (and People's Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive), downsized Pluto from a super-cute planet to a tiny, icy body.
Today is THE DAY for health care reform, and this page will bring you all the breaking news, tweets, photos, and video, all in one place. Flip thr...
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was asked several times on Monday about the GOP's lack of a specific healthcare reform plan. [...] Richmond r...
What do Kanye West, Serena Williams and a formerly obscure congressman from South Carolina have in common?
Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...
Mumbled apologies or standing up in front of everybody for questionable dress downs doesn't really do much for moving forward. It just gets people madder and more resentful.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will take control of the healthcare debate in his chamber when Congress returns, attempting to move along l...
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman made it clear Wednesday that he would not vote for a health care bill that included a government-run option, but said that wit...
Health-care reform is said to be in trouble partly because of those raucous August town-hall meetings in which Democratic members of Congress were bes...
Americans lost sight of why healthcare reform was vital in the first place. President Obama needs to paint a vivid, emotive picture of the need for healthcare reform.
Seeing how the health care debate has devolved into shouting matches at town halls, I present you with cheap, alternative health care solutions for these troubled times.
We attended Rep. Jan Schakowsky's health care town hall meeting in Niles last night where over 2,000 people showed up, packing a high school auditoriu...
In response to a statement made by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) that health care "is not a major issue among American people," Vice President Biden issued...
Raymond and Louise Denny of La Center were surprised last week to receive a mailing from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...
As a leading immigration restrictionist group today opens a conference highlighting the costs of immigrants to the nation's health care system, critic...
Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.
