At Democracy Now!: AMY GOODMAN: Today, we host a debate on healthcare. Dr. David Himmelstein is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, joining us from Watertown outside Boston. Len Nichols is the director of Health Policy Pro...

I had the strangest feeling when I read this - I felt sorry for the people who would be paying this tax increase. And then I thought, “You know, I’ll bet these people weren’t worried about the tax increases in my bracket for the past thirty years or so!” I felt a lot better: ...

Interesting: The New York Times reports that since last fall, “many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room” and “appear to be inching toward a consensus that could reshape the debate.” T...

I honestly don’t know what it will take to get politicians to understand we need universal healthcare - now. Go read the story about how young adults are trying to survive without insurance coverage: They borrow leftover prescription drugs from friends, attempt to self-diagnose ailments online...

CQ’s usually rational Chuck Crawford has been drinking the Beltway water far too long: Tom Daschle’s withdrawal leaves a fascinating and crucial vacuum to fill in Barack Obama’s emerging Cabinet. Two out-of-the-ballpark names to speculate about are (out of left field) Howard Dean, ...

This is one of the incremental plans (you know, of the “anything but single-payer variety) that the Obama people have put out there to “save money” in health care. (Even though experts estimate it would cost $75 to $100 billion to implement, which is a lot of simoleans, any way you...

Democrats had better be prepared to fight as hard as we did against the Republicans when they started in on “entitlement reform” - i.e. Social Security and Medicare. Social Security needs minor tweaking, not major reform. As to Medicare, well, nothing wrong that a national single-payer p...

Via the Mighty Corrente Building re: Obama healthcare house parties. (My responses in italics…) Here the list of questions we gathered. 1. Have you or anyone in your family ever failed to seek medical attention because you couldn’t afford it? (h/t a little night…) Uh, yeah! 2. Have you or ...

The state is famous for its teaching hospitals, and the hospitals were a dependable economic engine. Now they’re putting off expansion plans and cutting jobs: Officials say finances are being hit hard on several fronts: Tight credit markets have made it difficult to borrow money, investment in...

A young medical student tries to decide if she has what it takes to be an abortion provider....