Conventional wisdom holds that Barack Obama is a charismatic newcomer who holds less appeal to regular people. Tell that to anyone with a serious health problem.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
A week doesn't go by in my district offices without some constituent, often several, calling in a panic about a personal health care crisis.
Eli Pariser | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
However we ask the question, our members prefer the strategy of pushing for national public health insurance.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Without asking its members, MoveOn's leaders have elected to join the steering committee of, and pledge at least $500,000 of its members' money to, a new health care coalition.
Esther Drew | Posted 07.28.2008 | Home
Saturday, July 26 at two in the afternoon, I found myself in the living room of Jon and Liesl McQuillan. This, my first chance to attend a Democratic ...
Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.
Linda Hansen | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
The minute Lord meets Legislator all hell busts loose. We liberal believers don't recognize the far-right's God. South Carolina Republican Kevin Bryant is a leader in the Let's Prove God's a Goon PAC.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
For a relatively small amount of money, we can provide primary health care to every American in need of it through an expansion of the successful Federally Qualified Health Center program.
Mike Stark | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
I wish I had something exciting to share with you about the America's Health Insurance Plans conference, but Bill Frist, the reptile that he is, never seemed to break a sweat.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
HCAN is right that we must mobilize a massive citizens' movement for universal healthcare. Where they're mistaken is in trying for a compromise that will never work.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Given the amount of debt most doctors accumulate in medical school and the price of housing in many places in the U.S., doctors' declining pay could be the issue that tips the scales toward healthcare reform.
Roger Hickey | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Most politicians say they favor some kind of health care "reform," but HCAN is mobilizing a citizens' force that can make sure we do it right -- based on choice, affordability, shared responsibility, and fairness.
Rob Kall | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
Sadly, the Libertarian heart apparently does not include health care. The guy raised tens of millions of dollars and couldn't afford the $300-$600 a month that COBRA medical insurance would have cost.
Paul Peete | Posted 07.05.2008 | Home
If McCain is allowed to determine our future medical care, we will continue to suffer as a nation from a system designed to cater to only the smallest percentage of the very most wealthy people on earth.
Boston Globe | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office has begun convening a series of meetings involving a wide array of healthcare specialists to begin laying the groun...
John Geyman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living
Even after the House gave overwhelming bipartisan support to the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act by a vote of 355-59 (including 129 Republican votes), the Senate fell two votes short to overcome a presidential veto.
John Geyman | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
As the costs of health care surge ever higher, the financial barrier to care has clearly become the biggest impediment of all.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Elizabeth Edwards appeared on this morning's Good Morning America to discuss the Democratic Party's approach to universal health care. While Edwards ...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
The key to neutralizing the natural advantage McCain holds with seniors is to convince them that Obama wants "safe change" -- that he himself is "safe" and predictable.
Bryan Young | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
It's sad and disgusting to me that that I considered cost when my only thought should have been getting my son immediately to the hospital. Within a month, my son and I had accumulated $40,000 in medical bills.
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living
A response to yesterday's post - "Who Benefits from Billing in Healthcare?" - suggested that insurance companies are the scum of the earth. While most...
Ben Cohen | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
The future for this woman and her family is filled with fear and economic insecurity, and McCain offers virtually nothing in the way of serious solutions.
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.02.2008 | Home
Most people assume that universal health care will save money. They may be right. May be. Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and Taiwan...
Deane Waldman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
"Universal health care" doesn't mean to you what it means to them. To Presidential hopefuls and self-styled expert pundits, it means universal health ...
Deane Waldman | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
No modification -- universal health care; HIPAA; Patients' Bill of Rights; caps on malpractice awards; UMRA -- can make the current system give us what we want. We need a new system.
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Harold Pollack | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics