The ACA is raising the quality of care, halting skyrocketing health costs, providing preventive care without co-pays, and eliminating the worst insurance company abuses. Instead of improving health care, the Republican repeal plan would take it away.

The positions President Obama and Governor Romney took on the Women's Amendment is indicative of their social, economic, and political values. Here are facts behind the mandate to inform your vote.

I've been reminded of how important it is to remember the personal stories at this point in the election season. Talking heads will pontificate about who won what debate and what poll is really accurate. But there are real consequences to this election.

The Affordable Care Act is the greatest advance for women's health in a generation. Let's make sure it stays on the books and in the history books.

While we're accustomed to anti-abortion rhetoric from the right, consider this: the new normal for Republican politics is to deny women access to abortion even in the case of rape, incest, or threats to a woman's health. That's downright scary.

In the play Waiting for Godot, Godot never arrives, but the entire play is consumed with hand-wringing about what might happen if he did appear. In the case of the Affordable Care Act, there is similar hand-wringing over the Supreme Court decision about the fate of health reform, although we know the answer will arrive by the end of June. What are the possibilities for a Court decision on health reform and what might the impact be in each case? If the entire Act is declared unconstitutional, Americans could lose a number of benefits that have already been implemented; or, we could lose the opportunity, once health reform is fully implemented in 2014, to choose a health plan through a state exchange. With that loss, we would see a revival of the high cost of individual insurance plans and the chance of being rejected for coverage.

Today, Judge Henry Hudson heard oral arguments in Commonwealth v. Sebelius, which asks the judge to issue a court order that would stop implementation of the entire health-care law. If that happens, consumers are in for a world of trouble.

In 1910 there were no drugs as powerful as sulfa or antibiotics, but the government and the medical profession were beginning to wrestle with regulation of the medicines that existed.

As a health and medical writer, here are four issues that are not always clearly explained when the potential changes in our health care system are discussed.

The first wave of readers who answered our call to look through the Kennedy health care bill has already found a lot to highlight. As a reminder, ...