The health care reform bill that passes the Senate might be the one that ends up on President Obama's desk, bypassing the usual House-Senate conferenc...

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.

I've reviewed the current form of the your Senate Finance Committee bill, which is basically a good compromise, but has significant watered-down defects as it's about to go to vote.

President Obama has taken full control of the health care negotiations, casting himself for the first time in the role of mediator between the House a...

Obama: "The Senate and the House bills are 95 percent identical. There's 5 percent differences, and one of those differences is the public option. But this is an area that has just become symbolic of a lot of ideological fights."

Children's needs must be a priority as we approach the next debates in Congress. Not only is it our moral obligation as adults to speak up for children, who cannot speak up for themselves, but it is our civic duty.

As the Senate prepares to vote on health care reform, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina sent its enrollees a mass mailing on Wednesday asking them to oppose health care reform.

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The White House is distributing a letter from former President George H. W. Bush's Health and Human Services Secretary, Louis W. Sullivan, expressing ...

"The most troublesome task of a reform president," Henry Adams wrote in his autobiography, is "to bring the Senate back to decency." President Barack ...

If the health care bill goes down, the far right will add another notch to their belt, the media will paint Obama as a loser, and Obama will be even more cautious and pro-corporate going forward.

Discriminatory and ruinously expensive, our health care system is an affront to those with a capacity for moral outrage or a sense of social responsibility. Lacking either one or the other, Obama abandoned his pledges to voters.

The health care deal cut between the White House, the Senate Finance Committee and drug makers is destined for a showdown on the Senate floor. Senate ...

WASHINGTON — The White House will not commit to health care legislation that would cap insurance premiums or tax benefits, taking a wait-and-see...

Momentum is growing for passage of health care reform, and, because of their continued obstructionism, so is the threat to Republicans.

It occurred to me that President Obama and congress could have saved themselves some grief in the health care debate had they experimented with the British House of Commons "Question Time."

The lie that health care reform would hurt rural communities has been one to which progressives and moderates have been slow to respond, perhaps because there have been so many myths and distortions to keep us busy.

Societies are judged by how they treat the least in their ranks. This is a gut-check for our country, a huge test whether corporate America runs this nation, or We the People do.

What makes the president's actions during the health care debate disturbing is their common thread: If he has values, he doesn't want to talk about them, and it's hard to find many he isn't willing to give up.

Only in America will people justify the continued existence of private health care insurers, and making a buck over what should be the guaranteed right of access to health care.

We can't just let the kooks rule the day or threaten violence with their words. Don't leave Speaker Pelosi fearing for political violence in the streets because we have not done our job.

With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.