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.

President Obama promised last week, in his address to Congress, that he wouldn't sign any health care reform bill that added "one dime to the deficit,...

It's not an idle threat to tell everyone that they won't have health insurance in ten years without reform. That's why the insurance industry, while fighting anything that drains their profits, supports reform.

President Obama said last week his health care reform plan requires about $1 trillion in health care savings over the next 10 years. How can we save $1 trillion without significant care rationing?

Approximately 70,000 right wing protesters converged on D.C. over the weekend to protest. The signs they carried offered a glimpse of the unrestrained id of the American right.

From here forward, the health care bill that the President will sign should be named 'The Character of Our Country Health Care Reform Plan'.

While it's tempting to think that most Americans are well-informed and immune to health care myths, recent polls show that members of all political parties, across the country, are confused about what will happen to their health care.

We're addicted to attacking each other. To the point where some of us wear firearms to town hall meetings, heckle disabled women in wheelchairs, and bite actual body parts off people.

At the outset of his speech to Congress, Mr. Obama might want to turn to the Democratic side of the House and ask his fellow Democrats: "If we can guarantee access to quality health care for almost all Americans, would you really prefer no bill at all because we can't pass a public option this year?"

Mr. Obama has proved that he can be inspiring. But at this point, what he needs to inspire most of all is fear.

Maximizing the health of our citizens, which includes access to high quality health care, is nothing less than a matter of national security. You never hear the expression "socialized defense."

President Obama returned to the White House from his summer break on Sunday determined to jump-start his struggling presidency by reasserting command ...

Obama is very much a man of his time: weak or absent convictions, dispassion about even grievous wrongs, incapacity for moral outrage, with a ready assimilation of fads and fashions.

President Barack Obama plans to reach out to Republicans and reassure -- rather than confront -- his liberal supporters when he addresses an extraordi...

Thanks to the town hall turmoil from bigots, birthers and assorted miscreants, Republicans can savor a sugar-high on health care -- a decadent and ultimately short-lived victory.

If Obama had organized his cohorts and gone on the offensive and stayed on the offensive from the beginning in the health care debate, he would be winning this battle, not losing it.

Addressing Congress is a good idea, but Obama can't rely solely on his exceptional rhetorical skills. He'll need to twist arms, cajole, force recalcitrant members to join him, and threaten retribution if they don't come along.

Big Media frequently (usually?) gets it wrong, but their hyping out about the big gamble Obama is making with this health care speech to Congress is actually correct.

A good president will compromise on government options in health care reform. But if you are or want to be a great president, President Obama, you will look at the bastardized bill that will pass and say, "No."

This is health-care reform's endgame, or close to it. Next Wednesday, Barack Obama will give a prime-time address before both houses of Congress. But ...

I don't expect Obama will satisfy those who are certain government shouldn't get bigger, or those who have no doubt that only government can address health care. But he will have made progress.

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Monday that Americans shouldn't be "guilted" into passing health care reform because of the...