McClatchy is reporting today on a new study by the Lewin Group, a health care research organization that purports to be independent but is actually a subsidiary of health insurance giant UnitedHealth.
Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
California state assemblyman Michael Duvall has issued an apology for having a lewd and lascivious conversation that was picked up by a hot mic during...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Matt Yglesias takes an analytic look at the health care reform plan proffered by Max Baucus today, and while he beseeches his readers to remember his ...
The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...
washingtonpost.com | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Overall spending on lobbying has leveled off for the first time in a decade, according to disclosure data filed with Congress. Lobbying revenue for ma...
Brad Friedman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.
Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.
Larry Flynt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
You hear it more and more, sometimes in code, sometimes spelled out. We have reached the tipping point. The enemy has been identified. It's not left versus right in America. It's democracy versus greed.
Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
The Obama White House is doing untold damage to its credibility here by scheming against the centerpiece of healthcare reform -- the public option. This is the very heart of reform.
USA Today | Mimi Hall | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- AARP, which has lost tens of thousands of members over its support for efforts to revamp the health care system, is preparing a post-Lab...
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Larry Frankel spent his professional life as a legislative lobbyist for the ACLU. That means that Larry worked behind the scenes with both "left" and "right" legislators to protect the civil rights.
Dave Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
We are used to this kind of bad, antisocial, economically destructive behavior from self-interested American companies, organizations and people. And for some reason we seem to tolerate it.
Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.
Sarah Lovinger | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
Our country will have a health insurance bill this year. Despite the angry town halls and the 'death panels', President Obama and the Democratic congress have enough momentum to pass a bill providing health care coverage for all or most Americans. But they need to pass the right bill.
New York Times | Nicholas Kristof | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
As a nation, we're at a turning point. Universal health coverage has been proposed for nearly a century in the United States. It was in an early draft...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
There's been a major power shift in the United States over the past forty years. Power has devolved from the Russells, Kerrs and Johnsons to the lobbyists.
Kase Wickman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Dissent is essential to democracy, and freedom of speech and the right to assemble are vital and not reserved for one party or the other. The problem is this Republicans: you're doing it wrong.
John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.
Sally Kohn | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
My favorite outrageous lie about health care reform is the "gay conspiracy", whereby reform will not only put our elderly out to float on icebergs, but adorn those icebergs with men in leather chaps and feather boas.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy
In a debate with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, President Obama said, "If only we had had the Public Option in our health overhaul, Wolfgang Mozart would be alive today."
Michael Winship | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
What's interesting about the health care hullabaloo is that there appears to be an emerging backlash from some of the more reasoned thinkers of the conservative movement.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics