Don't these people ever learn? There's a heartbreaking piece in today's New York Times that chronicles how at least half of these United States, grappling with underfunded budgets, are cutting back on home-care services for the elderly and disabled. First -- and second, and third -- of all, that's unconscionably cruel. [...]

If this weren't such a deadly serious issue -- and one fraught with such danger down the road -- I'd be getting a huge giggle out of the way mandatory health care is twisting on the spit of hairsplitting definitions. Apparently, our Constitution, as interpreted by opponents to health care [...]

Well, I guess you have to give Republicans credit for naked honesty on this one:

Republicans are seizing on White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’s admission Sunday that Democrats could lose their House majority to send an unambiguous message to Washington’s lobbyist community: The train is leaving the station, [...]

Once one of the most powerful lobbies in all the nation, the American Medical Association (AMA) no longer appears capable of putting much bite into its bark. To illustrate the point, one need only examine the organization’s complete and utter ineptitude at handling the most important issue facing American physicians [...]

There's so much rotten news about corporations these days -- lax safety practices at BP leading to environmental disaster, out-of-control risk and compensation packages on Wall Street bringing down the economy, the once-hallowed Toyota guilty of shoddy workmanship -- that we sometimes tend to forget that industry does some things [...]

A sign of things to come? I was busy at work when I received a phone call from my health insurance company, Aetna Blue Cross of California. The insurer, best known for attempting to raise premium rates into the stratosphere and a history of seeking to deny coverage to those often [...]

Yesterday the blogosphere, particularly its conservative wing, was aflutter about the fact that the President has chosen to recess appoint Donald Berwick as the Director of the Center for Medicaid and Medicare. Indeed, conservative pols were up in arms about the President's latest act of treason. As reported by  Senatus, Senator [...]

One of the first major creations of the new healthcare legislation begins today as state and federally run high-risk insurance pools begin taking applications from American citizens and legal residents unable to get coverage due to pre-existing health conditions. Twenty-nine states have informed the federal government that they will operate their [...]

Back when both the public option and New York's St. Vincent's Hospital were both still battling for their lives (R.I.P. to both, more's the pity), I raised what I thought was a good question: wouldn't government-run hospitals be a better idea than government-run insurance?

Why shouldn’t the government operate [...]

The Pew Research Center has released a new report that perfectly illustrates how our broken media operates and why it's virtually impossible for an American citizen to keep him or herself informed about the substance of government policy.  Health care reform was the most covered topic in the media from [...]