Who says legislative procedure is dull? The final machinations leading to a health care vote have me by the throat: What arcane…
Mar 16, 2010Consumer Watchdog's calls for tough and open health insurance rate regulation are being echoed and amplified. The latest instance is in Connecticut,…
Mar 11, 2010Sarah Palin, the Cruella DeVille of anti-government-health care, caught everyone's attention with the story of her family hopping the border from Skagway,…
Mar 9, 2010President Obama's "get it done" speech on health reform Wednesday may have been a day late, but I hope it's not a…
Mar 3, 2010A few sentences in a Wall Street Journal story Tuesday, on Blue Cross insurance increases, made my eyes pop. If you take…
Mar 2, 2010Veteran political cartoonist Clay Bennett of Chattanooga has the solution...
Mar 2, 2010President Lyndon Johnson faced hard choices in 1964: Preserve Democrats' majority in Congress, perhaps for decades. Or ram through landmark civil rights…
Mar 2, 2010When Wellpoint CEO Angela Braly doesn't like a question, she's a regular Houdini of evasion and blame-shifting. Her testimony in front of…
Feb 24, 2010You know the phrase: You've "jumped the shark" by doing something too monumentally stupid to be believed. Blue Cross's shark-jumper was its…
Feb 9, 2010Those of us who have health insurance--or think we have health insurance--can get complacent about whether the nation needs that big, complicated…
Feb 8, 2010The Washington Post today has an eye-opening story today on how a family ended up in crushing debt at an "in-network" hospital…
Jan 19, 2010Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said little about health care, though the one fragment that is quoted leaves no doubt about where…
Jan 18, 2010California has been a leader in patients rights, largely in response to abuses by HMOs that, for instance, tried to eject new…
Jan 12, 2010If our semi-reformed health care system is going to stay in the hands of private, largely for-profit insurance companies, we're all going…
Jan 5, 2010Those of us who spend a lot of time watching insurance companies are worried about a seemingly innocuous provision in the Senate…
Dec 31, 2009Health insurers, hospitals and even some state-level doctor groups are gearing up for the next battle against reform, in state capitols. So,…
Dec 29, 2009I've been reading the latest amendments to the Senate health bill, hunti...
Dec 29, 2009When Sen. Joe Lieberman said last week that he might favor a health reform bill that traded away a "public option" for…
Dec 14, 2009