Medicare is still more cost-efficient than private insurance
2.5 million young adults insured thanks to Affordable Care Act
Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Understanding of the ACA continues to drop
Administration says no compromise on mandate in health reform
Shooting down the "moderate" Democratic Senators Joe Manchin, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson and Jon Tester, all of whom have voiced a desire to see individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act go, the White House says no deal.
In his daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs showed no enthusiasm...
Health insurers continue to drop children’s coverage
No one could have predicted that insurance companies would find ways around the Affordable Care Act when it came down to actually having to provide coverage to sick people.
As arguments about the constitutionality of healthcare reform reverberate through courtrooms in Florida and across the nation, two provisions that have already kicked...
McClatchy-Marist poll: Majority want health reform preserved or expanded
Potentially bad news for the all-repeal, all-the-time Republicans in Congress: it might appeal to the teabaggers, but not to the majority of Americans.
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WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans want the Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it,...
Some House Democrats urge GOP to reject their health benefits
Making some lemonade out of Rep.-elect Andy Harris's ongoing embarassment, a handful of Dems in the House are asking Republicans to put their principles where their mouths are and reject their taxpayer-funded health benefits.
Four members -- Joe Crowley (NY), Linda Sanchez (CA), Donna Edwards (MD), and Tim Ryan (OH) --...
McConnell: We’re on a path to tyranny with health insurance reform
In his quest to maintain relevance in his caucus, McConnell has decided to try to out-DeMint Jim DeMint by upping the crazy, teabaggie rhetoric in his all-repeal-all-the-time schtick.
Ripping a page right from the tea party hymnal, McConnell pledged to hold a vote on "full repeal" of the landmark health care law...
HCAN: Health insurers on pace for massive profits as they cut spending on care, drop patients
Health Care for America Now has been tracking insurance company profits [pdf] and it's good news, for the insurance companies, anyway. Not for the people they are supposed to be serving.
Washington, DC — The six largest investor-owned health insurance companies recorded huge profit gains in the third quarter of 2010 by...
Grassley: Health reform repeal will die in the Senate
Here's one Republican Senator who apparently doesn't have much faith in Mitch McConnell's all repeal, all the time plans for the Senate GOP caucus in the coming two years.
Speaking to Iowa radio station KCIM, the current ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee conceded that Senate Republicans do not have the...
Limbaugh: "Pre-existing condition coverage is not insurance; it’s welfare"
Crooks and Liars and digby have the story, but here's Limbaugh in his own words.
Now insurance that most people will actually have to pay for themselves is welfare. That's going to be the new talking point for Republicans. What digby says:
Although it sounds ridiculous, Rush...
