Janie Johnson has no health insurance, so when she cut her toe while giving herself a pedicure, she limped to the emergency room at one of Chicago's safety net hospitals and waited her turn. Complete Story...
It has been a challenging month for all Democratic lawmakers returning from a congressional recess, and especially for one Ohioan who has been tangling with a conservative, New Jersey-sized district that turned Democratic only after scandal felled a six-term Republican.
President Barack Obama's health care initiative is repeating history. No, not the failed attempt by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Right now, Obama's troubled plan is on the same shaky ground that preceded President George W. Bush' grand flop with Social Security.
Time is running out for a two-party compromise on health care as a bipartisan group of six Finance Committee senators considers a new proposal that might be the last, best hope for an overhaul agreement.
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It's vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don't want to provide that procedure.
About a half dozen U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are using terms like "socialization" and "monopolization" in adding their voices to the health care debate.
While working for a marketing firm, Michael Townsend coined the signature phrase that appears on highway signs, T-shirts and tourism promos in these parts: "Maine — the Way Life Should Be."
The care offered at health clinics in retail stores often costs less and is just as good as that offered at doctors' offices and urgent care centers, says the first large-scale study of U.S. retail clinics.
House liberals pleaded with President Barack Obama on Friday to push for creation of a government-run health care program as the Senate's chief negotiator said he won't wait much longer for Republicans to compromise amid dwindling chances for a bipartisan bill.
A group of senior British doctors expressed concern Thursday about the treatment of the terminally ill, saying some people are dying prematurely because of guidelines for dealing with patients in their final hours.
President Barack Obama will deliver a major prime-time health care address to Congress next week, opening an urgent autumn push to gain control of the debate that has been slipping from his grasp under withering Republican-led attacks.
Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would take up one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's key political fights, pledging to the thousands who attended his town hall meeting to push for the health care overhaul championed by his longtime Democratic colleague.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told cheering and jeering constituents Tuesday he still supports a public health insurance option as part of a health care overhaul.
President Barack Obama seems fired up and ready to go.
An odd couple of Republican senators have hit the road, arguing for a go-slow approach to President Barack Obama's push to revamp health care.
Doctors shouldn't have much to fear from the likes of Wal-Mart or Walgreens but the fact is retail health clinics are becoming a growing phenomenon and are winning the battle against the person in the white coat.
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus told AARP members Tuesday that those who are worried that a health care overhaul would hurt their government benefits should know that even Medicare recipients would be helped under his plan.
A new television ad campaign seeks to ratchet up pressure on Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley among his constituents to accept sweeping reforms to the nation's health care system, but even his political opponents concede there's little that can be done to scare the veteran Republican lawmaker.
The man expected to become the AFL-CIO's next president said Monday that lawmakers would pay a political price if they abandon a government-run option in any health care overhaul.
A leading Democratic senator says the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would have been ready to compromise on overhauling health care, but negotiations had not yet reached that point.
About a thousand people rallied in Manhattan on Saturday in support of federal health care reform legislation.
Until about 50 years ago, the Canadian and U.S. health care systems were fairly similar — part public and part private, for-profit and nonprofit, with large numbers of people uninsured and shouldering their own medical bills.
The national Republican Party has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might use an overhaul of the health care system to deny medical treatment to Republicans.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Thursday it is temporarily suspending its television ads that attack the Democratic health care effort, becoming the second opponent of the effort to do so since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death.
A Georgia clinic hopes to start a flat-fee medical trend in rural America.
Jarvis Tyner, the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA, is singing the praises of President Obama.
As we've said before, dissent used to be the highest form of patriotism. That ended when Obama took office. Now, according to his own site, it's the purview of "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process."
Army SPC Greg Missman had ended his military service 11 years earlier, but signed back on in order to provide his young son Jack with health insurance coverage.
During a question-and-answer session at a Town Hall, Rep. Bill Posey (FL-R) expressed support for his own government health care plan, but opposed government care (public option) for other Americans.
Around the country are hospitals are quietly trying innovative changes to improve patient care at below-average prices through offering 90-day warranties on surgeries and follow-up calls after the patient is discharged.
excerpt: ""I can't think of a state less equipped to deal with major health insurance rate hikes than Michigan, currently mired with - this will not be a typo - 15.6% unemployment. But that's exactly what they're getting.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne warn that the screening tools are imperfect and there is a risk of focusing too much on providing interventions such as antidepressants and CBT rather than exploring broader psychosocial issues such as partner violence, co-morb …
But," says Jeff Scialabba, a writer with the Ayn Rand Center, "the President's eight 'health insurance consumer protections' demonstrate the contradictions inherent in these claims.
Here's the text of an open letter that appeared in the L.A. Times on Thursday. It's by Anne Lamott, one of America's most creative and most spiritual writers (funny, too):
President Obama returned to the White House from his summer break on Sunday determined to jump-start his struggling presidency by reasserting command of the health care debate and recalibrating expectations that some advisers believe got away from him. ...
The "Liverpool Care Pathway" involves a series of tick-box assessments, which aim to assess the likelihood of death in patients deemed to be terminally ill in hospitals, nursing and residential homes.
While watching CNN's State of the Union with John King yesterday he did an interview with 3 people (random? all were Democrats) at the Minnesota state fair. The woman, Susan Reynolds, stated that the government needs to take care of everyone, not just those on Medicaid.
There is certainly a lot of misnomers. Health care is not Birth Control Pills. Birth control pills are certainly not healthy for the woman.
Studies have shown that people who lack health insurance also skip primary care: the basic checkups that aim to keep people healthy.
I simply wonder if all of these students or their parents have health insurance
POLL I genuinely think that the Republican Party would not exist except for the racist and bigots keeping it alive. You see the racist and bigots are " CLUB or GROUP THINK TYPE" people which are easily led and manipulated.
Georgia State Senator Judson Hill and his fellow Republicans are fighting the proposed federal health care option because: "We don't want a one-size-fits-all government plan thrust down our throat and to be penalized or forced or to have it forced upon us." However, nothing …
The recent debates surrounding health care reform have served well to unearth a glut of ugly truths buried in modern American culture.
HR 3200 and its progeny are disasters. It seems that everyone except the far left agrees on this. In this article, I will analyze issues that I feel are wrong with those bills and why almost the entire populace is rallying against them.
I have seen people on the internet who should know better credit proponents of "universal", or "federal government" or "central planning" health care with "noble", if impractical, goals based on a strong "moral" sense". Hogwash. Balderdash's. "1984" style Big Lie.
While coverage of the health care reform debate has focused on yelling, booing and fistfights, not all engagements between lawmakers and constituents turn hostile. Sen.
One recent Monday, the line in the Church of the Brethren parking lot began to form at around 2:30 a.m. when a husband and wife arrived. They came almost 8 hours early in the hope of seeing a dentist — for free.
How does it feel to have health insurance contributions deducted from your paycheck, then find out you didn't actually have insurance, and now are expected to pay thousands in medical bills? Ask employees of Turbine Airfoil Designs (TAD) Inc. in Harrisburg.
White House officials are saying a government health insurance option is negotiable - a sign of a potential compromise on an issue that President Barack Obama's liberal supporters consider do-or-die.