Many are rallying around the public option like it's a singular opportunity to save the world. It's not; it's not even close.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
On the national level the blood sport game of politics is played on a grand scale. Locally, the rough and tumble can leave real scars.
Andrew Kreig | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
To energize public support for robust health care reform, a civil rights icon and two House leaders are planning a hearing and rally to duplicate the reform achievements of the 1960s.
Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis ...
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New York City police say 14 demonstrators were arrested on criminal trespass charges during a sit-in inside a midtown Manhattan build...
Deane Waldman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
We owe it to ourselves to consider Congressman Roe's Healthcare Reform Bill memo, as our important concern, without reference to our biases, should be the message itself, not the messenger.
Michael Moore | Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment
I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not u...
Ellen Gill | Posted 11.26.2009 | Chicago
The Mad As Hell Doctors are a group of physicians who are spending September driving from Portland to Washington, D.C., seeking a meeting with President Obama.
Sep. 24, 2009 | Parija B. Kavilanz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama's former personal physician of 22 years, Dr. David Scheiner, has been very vocal on the issue of health ins...
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Is the Baucus plan, the one that manages the improbable feat of making the developed world's most expensive, least effective health care system even worse, indeed the only one with a prayer of passage?
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
If every person were on Medicare, the overall savings would overwhelm the small increase in the Medicare payroll tax of 5.8%.. Seelye and the Times have never mentioned any of this
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
A fish, even with legs tacked on, is not a horse. And Max Baucus' tepid vision of reform, even as amended, is not a true healthcare solution.
Tim Ellis | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Kucinich submitted an amendment to one health care bill giving states the right to adopt their own single-payer system. Republicans ought to love the chance to walk the walk on states' rights by supporting that one.
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
If the health care debate seems like a hopeless morass, it's largely because moneyed interests want it to look that way. Matt Taibbi reminds us that the most fundamental issue is simple: Who pays, and how?
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Recently, she sat down with me to discuss health care reform.
Michael Moore | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment
My crew and I had one thought in mind while we were filming Capitalism: What if the powers-that-be refuse to give us funding for the next movie after they see what we've put in this one?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
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.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Medicare writes the checks. It doesn't operate on the wrong leg, over-radiate a cancer patient, miss a cancer, or give people too many prescriptions.
Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment
This is not only Moore's best film, but it is the most politically incendiary film put on the American screen in memory.
Deane Waldman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
When President Obama gave his speech on health care, he spoke as though the phrase personal responsibility did not exist.
Mark Dorlester | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
According to the American political right-wing, government-guaranteed health care is good for Iraqis, but not good for us. Not good for you.
Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy
Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
I look back on my almost 25-year-long life of being treated by public health care, and am honestly insulted by the misinformation that comes from anti-reformers.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
I thought it might be useful to provide a beginner's guide to health care in the United States to make it easier to understand what is being debated, or should be debated.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics