John Nichols: Force Republicans to Vote for Their Medicare-Destroying Budget John Nichols: Force Republicans to Vote for Their Medicare-Destroying Budget
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has a plan to make sure Republicans give up on the Paul Ryan budget.
May 20, 2011 / Press Room
John Nichols: Force Republicans to Vote for Their Medicare-Destroying Budget John Nichols: Force Republicans to Vote for Their Medicare-Destroying Budget
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has a plan to make sure Republicans give up on the Paul Ryan budget.
May 20, 2011 / The Ed Show
Paul Ryan Aims to Rebrand His Medicare Plan, But Nobody’s Buying It Paul Ryan Aims to Rebrand His Medicare Plan, But Nobody’s Buying It
Paul Ryan says his plan to overhaul Medicare empowers Americans and guarantees coverage options. What it really does is gives the private insurance industry a green light to prey o...
May 18, 2011 / The Ed Show
Paul Ryan Aims to Rebrand His Medicare Plan, But Nobody’s Buying It Paul Ryan Aims to Rebrand His Medicare Plan, But Nobody’s Buying It
Paul Ryan says his plan to overhaul Medicare empowers Americans and guarantees coverage options. What it really does is gives the private insurance industry a green light to prey o...
May 18, 2011 / Press Room
As Floodwaters Rage, Rural Areas Are Sacrificed to Spare Louisiana’s Cities As Floodwaters Rage, Rural Areas Are Sacrificed to Spare Louisiana’s Cities
Melissa Harris-Perry says that people in New Orleans need to acknowledge this great sacrifice and work to provide these communities with the health care, housing and education th...
May 17, 2011 / MSNBC
The GOP’s Attack on Medicare Could Be Their Last Battle The GOP’s Attack on Medicare Could Be Their Last Battle
A miscalculation, an overreach and a massively foolhardy and hubristic move is how The Nation's Chris Hayes describes the GOP's attack on Medicare.
May 10, 2011 / Press Room
Stop the Bleeding: An Interview With Medicare Fraud Expert Malcolm Sparrow Stop the Bleeding: An Interview With Medicare Fraud Expert Malcolm Sparrow
How much taxpayer money could government agencies save if they cracked down on scams like healthcare fraud? The answer, suggests a Harvard professor: hundreds of billions of dollar...
May 10, 2011 / Sasha Abramsky
Cut Medicare? No Way! Make It ‘Medicare for All’! Cut Medicare? No Way! Make It ‘Medicare for All’!
Senator Bernie Sanders is back with a plan for real health care reform. Instead of cutting Medicare, as Paul Ryan proposes, he wants to respond to our health-care crisis with ...
May 10, 2011 / John Nichols
Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare Vermont Ever Closer to Single-Payer Healthcare
The Senate and the House of Representatives agree: single-payer health care is the only way to provide real coverage for all.
May 9, 2011 / Laura Flanders
IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya? IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?
An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent th...
May 6, 2011 / Anna Clark