Maureen Waters was a perfectly healthy 52-year-old from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has three children and an eight-month-old grandson named Noah. Af...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 12.02.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up compelling local stories about the victims of the recession. Federal...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Benjamin French was born with his right arm missing below the elbow. In his 12 years, he has been fitted with seven prostheses. His most recent replac...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
CHICAGO — Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the h...
Rep. Debbie Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
I'm so grateful my constituents shared their personal stories with me. They are the face of the health care crisis. We put together a video of these stories to show why reform is so necessary.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The po' white south makes up most of the uninsured. Chew on that for a while. Then ask yourself where the strongest opposition to health reform comes from (hint: it's red states).
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a ...
Medill News Service | Sean Cooley | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
By the time Juan Ramirez was discovered on Aug. 27, 2008, the damage had already been done. Ramirez, 42, an immigrant living without a known address o...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was pressed earlier this week on whether he knew how many constituents in his district were uninsured. The conservative congr...
Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
We will get the incremental health care reforms we were promised. Things will likely get better in the short term. Then, since we didn't contain costs, we'll need to enact real reform. Or, things will go right back to the status quo.
Christal Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Remember when you were just starting out and it was all you could do to cover the monthly expenses you HAD to pay-like rent and utilities-and paying...
Mark Hoppus | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
How do we as a nation provide quality health care to all citizens? It seems like a simple enough question. And yet, every day too many Americans go about their lives without proper coverage
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
On Saturday, September 26, television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a free clinic in Houston, one that attracted over 1,700 people. It was the larg...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
A new television ad released by the American Values Network makes a religious appeal for health care reform in a new ad. The progressive faith group, ...
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
Who exactly are these uninsured people we keep hearing about? They're not what many people expect. The vast majority of the uninsured -- 81 percent -- come from working families with low incomes.
The Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Any health-care overhaul that Congress and President Obama enact is likely to have as its centerpiece a fundamental reform: Insurers would not be allo...
Andy Wilson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The moral of my story is that, contrary to right-wing myth, it's not who's paying for the medical care that affects its quality.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living
"Uninsured" is a word that refers to people in the abstract. I want to show America who these people really are: their struggles, their fears, and their true challenges.
Stan Dorn | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Should Progressives in Congress kill any health care legislation that doesn't have public insurance option? It all depends. Remember that nearly 50 million people in this country lack health insurance.
Think Progress | Lee Fang | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
At the Richmond Times-Dispatch "public square" forum yesterday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) fielded open questions from his constituents on the health ref...
Anne Mai Bertelsen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Employer-sponsored insurance is an endangered species. Without health care reform, including a public option, many more Americans will join the ranks of the uninsured. Including, potentially, my family.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Comedy
Rep. Boehner said that the sooner the uninsured die, "the sooner they will be relieved of the stress and anxiety caused by not having health coverage."
John Geyman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
In 2002, that more than 18,000 Americans between the ages of 19 and 64 were dying each year as a result of being uninsured. The new number is two and a half times that figure.
HuffPost | Victoria Fine and Jonathan Harris | Posted 12.03.2009 | Impact