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Obama Health Care Reform

To Build a Bridge

Linda P. Fried | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Linda P. Fried

We need to create the infrastructure for a new kind of health system: one that brings clinic and community together.

Health Care Reform in Critical Condition

Roy Ulrich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Roy Ulrich

From my point of view, and from the point of view of most liberals familiar with the subject, real health care reform must include a "public" option - that is, one that competes with private insurance.

How Obama Convinced His Advisers To Push Health-Care Reform

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In early January, most of Barack Obama's senior staff assembled with the president-elect for a meeting inside a windowless, eighth-floor office at the...

Healthcare Enemy No. 1: The Millionaire Republican Who Could Kill Reform

The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Rush Limbaugh offers Democrats an irresistible target as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, but for my money, Rick Scott is the man who best...

Washington Should Look to Wisconsin for Answer to Health Care Reform

Gov. Jim Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gov. Jim Doyle

While many states are cutting back on health care programs, here in Wisconsin we are moving forward, expanding access to health care at an unprecedented rate.

Health Care Reform: Now or Never

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Miles J. Zaremski

It is now or never for health care reform; sure hope the "Hail Mary" pass called change in health care is caught in the end-zone for a touchdown.

Obama's Great Society

Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dylan Loewe

What was most impressive about the speech was not its cadence and tone, but the framing used to sell its contents.

Obama Flips: Now Aiming For Universal Healthcare Coverage

The American Prospect | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

I've now been able to confirm with multiple senior administration sources that the health care proposal in Obama's budget will have a mandate. Sort of...

Democrats Fire a Shot on Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Reform

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Miller

Are seniors about to get a new deal on prescription drugs from Washington?

Obama's Health Care Reform and Social Networks: An Experiment

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Francine Hardaway

We have the power to help Obama in a big way if he truly wants to produce health care reform, because we understand the viral potential of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Sam Stein

Daschle Health Care Video Addresses Americans Directly (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The commitment of Barack Obama to have an open dialogue, whether it be in revealing donors or crafting policy, is one of the defining features of his ...

Sam Stein

Obama Launches Interactive Health Care Website

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Seeking to, once again, blaze a new trail on the intersection of technology and politics, the Obama transition team launched a new website on Tuesday ...

McCain's Health Care Plan: 20 Million Americans Would Lose Coverage

Kathlyn Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Kathlyn Stone

While Obama's health care plan would spend roughly 20 percent more than McCain's, it would cover more people and cost less per capita.