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If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. Companies don't add units without combining, consolidating, streamlining, and reducing.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.
Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The momentum is there and the Senate may water down health care reform but it will pass some version. This will become one of the most popular and beloved policies since Social Security and Medicare.
The Plum Line | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter...
New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up press...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Progressive leaders are calling the neutered public option in the House bill a "once in a lifetime reform," despite the fact that it has eliminated the very provision they promised was essential.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
With the House of Representatives set to vote on health care reform during a session on Saturday, the White House announced its support for the legisl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va) scoffed and downplayed the significance of two major health-care related interest groups endorsing Democratic a...
George Halvorson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
For today, we need to recognize that we spend more money in America on health care than any other country by a factor of two or three -- and we are not getting the consistent, high-quality care we should be getting for all the money we are spending
Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Despite favorable national poll numbers, the public option faces a potentially fatal counter-attack during the weeks ahead because of lack of follow-up by its proponents.
AP | ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP_the seniors' lobby_will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democ...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If you break your pledge and vote for a health reform bill without this minimally robust version of the public option, you've ensured that even with a Democratic majority, all "reform" will be limited by your Blue Dog colleagues.
Drew Westen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Genuine leadership means setting the agenda. It means taking tough stands. Leadership is a quality Barack Obama showed on the campaign trail. It is a quality he has failed to show as president.
New York Times | Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama's arms-length ...
Dan Siegel | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
One year since an historic election, where the Obama administration has fallen short in our hopes for a truly new direction, one finds the central conflict to be between public good and private gain.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Wendy Sachs | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
They are the quintessential power couple. Parents of young children, they are attractive, athletic, romantic, charismatic, exotic, and trying to save the world one organic garden at a time.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.
Robert E. Gordon | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
When I took ill in 1989, I discovered what so many others had discovered: that private insurance companies didn't like me any more. Here's what else I've learned since then, and my message to the President.
W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
The verbiage being hurled at President Obama sounds, to my twenty five years of counseling-trained ears, more like the rhetoric of abuse than of political discourse.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
MIAMI — President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That was the pledge he repeated Mon...
Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Those fighting for a "robust" public option need to finally accept the hard truth that Barack Obama is not an ally. He's an obstacle.
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Ron Ashkenas | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business