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The Democrats celebrated an overtime victory in the health care Super Bowl in subdued fashion--no champagne corks popped in the Oval Office...

Once, under local anesthesia on an operating table, I overheard doctors in heated disagreement on what to do next. It was not reassuring, bu...

In the battle over health care, the Republican Right, after months of saying no to every Obama initiative from stimulus to bailouts, has gon...

After months of conning the President with promises of cooperation, the thieves who siphon off one out of every three dollars spent on healt...

Max Baucus' Gang of Six has turned into the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight by blowing enough holes into the health care bill to ...

As summer vacation ends, the President is looking like the principal of a dysfunctional high school, trying to quell yelling in the corridor...

At the age of twelve, he pestered his family to let him contribute to a memorial volume about his oldest brother, Joe, who had been lost in ...

If you doubt that liberal and conservative have lost all meaning in the health care debate, consult the New York Times ' columnists of t...

After five months in office, his whirlwind presidency is taking a toll on the President in more ways than one. Worrying about the economy ...

In President Obama's house call on the AMA today, the medicine may be coated with a little sugar for doctors that will be a bitter pill...

The table is set for the Senate to cut the heart out of health care reform, with an ailing Ted Kennedy pitted against Max Baucus , recipien...

The Senate Republican leader is channeling a couple of GOP golden oldies to oppose a public option in the health care reform pending in Con...

Today's joint statement by Sens. Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy promising to “seek common ground on health reform legislation” is, in essen...

For the coming political battle, the last Kennedy of his generation is sounding the trumpet for health care reform . "Over the last y...

As Dr. Scott Gottlieb, "a partner to a firm that invests in health-care companies," explains that the "surest way to intensi...

The health-care finals start in Washington today with the Obama home team hosting the all-stars who have made the American medical system on...

How much time on earth is enough? How good does it have to be? What price are we willing to pay for it? For decades, Americans have been deb...

As the legislative battle begins to get medical attention for millions, Senate Republicans are stalling Kathleen Sebelius' confirmation...

With a goal of passing legislation by June, Congress is getting serious about health care reform, and advocates of change are more nervous ...

The health care reform that dares not speak its name edged out of the shadows yesterday with a New York Times editorial suggesting: "...