Health Care

Health Cares Health Cares

The United States stands alone among wealthy nations in failing to assure its population reasonable healthcare.

Oct 16, 2008 / Feature / Sara Rosenbaum

Wrong Prescription: McCain’s Healthcare Plan Wrong Prescription: McCain’s Healthcare Plan

McCain would encourage employers to cut coverage. No joke: that's his plan.

Oct 8, 2008 / Feature / J. Lester Feder

Obama: Healthcare Should Be a Right Obama: Healthcare Should Be a Right

During the second presidential debate, McCain and Obama show their stark differences on the issue of healthcare.

Oct 8, 2008 / CNN

Our Healthcare System Is Dying Our Healthcare System Is Dying

If only the federal government could be mobilized to solve the nation's healthcare crisis as quickly as it did for Wall Street.

Oct 3, 2008 / RoseAnn DeMoro

Health Policy Placebos Health Policy Placebos

Clinton and Obama haven't come up with real solutions yet, but a mass movement could push them toward the right solution.

Mar 27, 2008 / Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein

Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts Cautionary Healthcare Tales From California and Massachusetts

Signs of trouble no matter who is elected President.

Mar 25, 2008 / Feature / Trudy Lieberman

Long Roe to Hoe Long Roe to Hoe

Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.

Jan 17, 2008 / Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman

Sick Kids’ Laugh Riot Sick Kids’ Laugh Riot

Dear Congressional Democrats: Here's a funny story about what it's like to have a really sick kid, even if you do have insurance.

Oct 16, 2007 / Column / Annabelle Gurwitch

Healthcare Surrender Monkeys Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

Sep 21, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

Let the CHIPs Fall… Let the CHIPs Fall…

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.

Sep 20, 2007 / Trudy Lieberman

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