Pick any national metric of healthiness -- life expectancy, infant mortality, birth weight, chronic diseases incidence -- and America's comparative performance is in the cellar. How can this be?
Tom Bell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home
Some people object to this healthcare because they think it's socialized medicine. It's not. I know because I, like every other veteran who uses the V.A. Medical System, am treated under a socialized medical program.
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.
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.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more...
Jeffrey Jena | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
The government taking over the health care system would be a blunder almost as grand as George and Dick's Excellent Iraq Adventure and in the long run it would be about 1000 times as expensive.
Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
It's no secret that the two major candidates for President have vastly different takes when it comes to healthcare reform (here's Obama's plan and her...
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.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Hillary's actual policy proposals are more likely to pad corporate bottom lines than better the lives of those at whom she lobs her populist campaign rhetoric.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
If a Democrat is elected president, the progressive mass movement should use the opportunity to move beyond their compromised health care plans to push for Medicare For All.
Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living
Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?
Simon Woods | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
I worry that the democrats will kick themselves if Obama is their nominee: they will kick themselves for allowing a "movement" to distract them from keeping their eye on the prize.
Eric Stoner | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
I am a life-long cash cow for the drug companies and, paradoxically, an enormous liability for any insurance company -- one that ideally should be expunged as quickly as possible.
Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
Hillary has hit the air in Wisconsin with a new ad focusing on her health care plan. The ad features praise from Paul Krugman over her plan: See...
Lee Camp | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics
It makes me nauseous to think of the hundreds of illegal aliens who have had their fires put out on my tax dollar.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics