Health Care

Washington - If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe …

Climbing aboard the anti-birth control bandwagon, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 on Monday to endorse legislation that would: a) give employers the right to deny health insurance …

The Obama administration notified Texas yesterday that it was officially stopping funds to the Texas Women’s Health Program because of the state’s decision to block abortion providers, including Planned …

President Barack Obama talks on the phone while aboard Air Force One. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Within the past month, the Obama administration has heard …

Why can’t GOP politicians trumpet their religious credentials without assaulting women?  Because fundamentalist religion of all stripes has degradation of women at its core. Fundamentalist Christianity is no exception. Progressive Christians believe that …

Fidel Castro dubbed this year’s Republican primary as the “greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance the world has ever seen.” We as a nation gave him that line by …

Nancy Hemenway, a senior financial services executive and hospital patient, reads a newspaper in the library of the Eleven West wing at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, …

(Photo: Moyers & Co.) We haven’t even turned the page on the controversy over contraceptives, health care and religious freedom, when another thorny one arises involving personal …

(Photo: ~*Leah*~ / Flickr) In advance, I apologize to my grown kids for what might be, for them, an embarrassing discussion about their mother's sex life and …

Missiles are pointed at Social Security and Medicare, the broad-based programs for older Americans. Some are stealth missiles. Some are misguided missiles. But both parties are pointing them. Democrats …