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.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The Baucus plan avoids exclusions on pre-existing conditions and does not limit costs to a reasonable level -- which makes it unworkable.
John Geyman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Republicans have fought against Medicare from the very beginning. But in their strategy to kill health care reform, they are all of a sudden sounding like defenders of Medicare against the evils of big government.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Political discussions in America are fast becoming solely theological in nature.. Each side has their beliefs. Each has their tenets which they fervently defend. Much of this is done on faith.
Crain's New York | Barbara Benson | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
The proportion of uninsured New Yorkers skyrocketed by 2 percentage points in 2008, according to census figures released Friday. A total of 2.72 milli...
John Geyman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Organized medicine has become so fragmented that no one group speaks for the profession. In fact, some groups have endorsed major health care reform.
Drew Westen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
At this historic moment, the White House has determined that the best way to win the center is to tack right. But sometimes, the best way to win the center is not to move to the center, but to move the center.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
John Geyman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Likely rewards to the hospital industry from health care reform? If events continue in direction they are now, hospitals will thrive, with more insured people and generous accommodations from government.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
There's nothing standing between us and being uninsured other than an employer who woke up this morning feeling like they could still afford to provide you and I with insurance.
John Geyman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
The drug industry's agenda is crystal-clear: expand its markets through wider insurance coverage, avoid price controls, and gain maximal patent protection.
nytimes.com | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
One of the major goals of health care reform is to cover the vast numbers of uninsured. But how vast, really, is that pool of people? Who are they? An...
The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visib...
John Geyman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Why this incredible disconnect among our elected representatives shaping the future of one-sixth of our economy and future health care of all 310 million of us?
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The ranks of poor and uninsured Americans are likely increasing – with more than 38.8 million believed to be in poverty. Reb...
John Geyman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Despite some useful provisions, it is wishful thinking to believe that health care "reform", as projected by current proposals being considered in Congress, can actually make health insurance more affordable and make a real difference to people already burdened by their spiraling costs.
John Geyman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
If enacted, exchanges and co-ops offering a small public option will only raise hopes for reform that will never come, and are therefore a cop-out for those shaping this year's reform attempt.
Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
What is at stake is not whether people have the right to affordable health care, but whether people have the right to life.
Michele Swenson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.
Ray Hanania | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
Instead of acting like intelligent people, today's seniors, the Baby Boomers, are acting like crybabies who have set aside everything they once held sacred in order to insure that their selfish interests and their comfortable healthcare options are protected.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Voters are not like policy wonks. Only when they get really riled up do they send their message -- loud and clear -- to public officials. Hence the growing public debate over reform.
Stan Dorn | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics