In a recent trip to England, I was struck by a severe case of sciatica. With excruciating pain, I was forced to face the nightmare of the National Health System.
Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm happy for union workers who've earned "better" plans through collective bargaining. But I'm somewhat unsympathetic on the subject when most of us working stiffs can't afford any plan at all.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
If health reform fails, the presidency will survive. If reform is half-hearted, a victory will be claimed and everyone, except for a few harsh critics, will go back to the status quo.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011
Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, and even before, there has been a deep strain of exceptionalism in the American character.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011
Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.
Market Watch | Robert Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Odds are growing longer for the public health-insurance option that the White House has pushed as part of an overhaul of t...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011
Nancy Pelosi just blasted out this statement signaling that House Dems are standing firm behind the public option, despite the White House's apparent ...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011
What's sad is that these scaremongering tactics are so effective. They make it easy to forget that we rank #37 in world health.
The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011
August is where reform will be won or lost. And while the critics have certain momentum right now, the supporters have one big tactical advantage. Now...
Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 11.17.2011
One thing I've learned through my ordeal is this: the health insurance industry functions like a gambling casino. Your health -- indeed your life -- has an odd attached to it.
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
"[E]ven if getting any bill called 'health care reform' passed would be good short-term politics," writes political scientist Scott Lemieux, "it's wor...
Tom Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011
The challenge posed by health care reform is fixing what's broken without breaking what works. What works is health insurance employers voluntarily provide to over 160 million Americans.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Rahm Emanuel has caused consternation among progressives -- including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Howard Dean -- for suggesting health care legisl...
The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
The healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress this year will include a government-run public health insurance option, regardless of the bipart...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in a...
Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011