As I type this, the US House and Senate have both passed health care reform bills. While not an expert on the health care debate, I think there are g...
Evan Handler | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
While cutting benefits available to those that need them, Blue Cross of California will simultaneously be raising the cost to employers of purchasing coverage for their workers.
Sarah Lovinger | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living
Why am I so fed up with Lieberman? As a doctor who has been taking care of uninsured patients for more than a dozen years, it seems utterly unjust that one legislator could derail public health care for millions.
Evan Handler | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
I'd ask, "What is the world coming to?" except the rest of the world seems to be making sense. Of the industrialized nations, it's only ours that doesn't provide some form of "universal" health care coverage to its citizens.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
I am not convinced that we need government in the business of providing healthcare. We need a risk-weighted healthcare system.
George Halvorson | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living
One challenge we face in American health care policy today as is how to build premiums for the individual people who buy "non-group" coverage that will be affordable for both older buyers and younger buyers.
ImpreMedia | Pilar Marrero | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Latino voters in the United States see health care reform as the most important priority for the country and a solid majority expresses support for un...
George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Consumers and patients in America need to be able to make health care choices in a data-rich environment with clear information about care outcomes, caregiver performance, effectiveness and price.
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The House passed health care reform on Saturday night. I can't believe it's been this hard. How far has the Right (and the Left) moved to the right? Bear with me as I take you into the past.
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
You deserve a more articulate answer to the question: just what is the problem?
Helen I. Hwang | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
I had my first baby under private health care in the U.S. and then my next one under socialized medicine in the U.K. The differences in the two systems are enlightening, to say the least.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
For today, we need to recognize that we spend more money in America on health care than any other country by a factor of two or three -- and we are not getting the consistent, high-quality care we should be getting for all the money we are spending
Susan L. Travis | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
Somehow in our search for reasonable health care, my only sibling was caught in a vortex of "policies and procedures" designed to minimize costs and avoid accountability.
Lara M. Gardner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
I sincerely hope our legislators can get their act together and create a health plan that provides health care for every American so all of us can experience true and complete care, as I did.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.
Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
When I took ill in 1989, I discovered what so many others had discovered: that private insurance companies didn't like me any more. Here's what else I've learned since then, and my message to the President.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Jo Comerford | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The tired peace dividend tug boat left the harbor two decades ago, dragging with it laughable hopes for universal health care and decent public education. Now, the mighty USS War Dividend is preparing to set sail.
George Halvorson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
We can't fix care in America until we have universal coverage. We can't afford universal coverage if we don't fix care. They are a package. They both need to be done.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Health insurance reform therefore, is not only needed, but in fact it may be required under the U.S. Constitution, according to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
We live in a country where 400,000 people die every year not from a disease, but from what they eat -- and this is not considered relevant to health care reform?
Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
What civilized country operates like this? In case God-and-country defenders of the status quo need reminding, America's for-profit health insurance system serves neither.
Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
I've reviewed the current form of the your Senate Finance Committee bill, which is basically a good compromise, but has significant watered-down defects as it's about to go to vote.
J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics