reforming health care and regulating Wall Street - have unleashed massive campaigns from the enemies of free markets. ...more

October 25, 2009

Lock up pedophiles I have to vent. I am so sick of hearing about another child being sexually abused and/or killed. ...more

October 25, 2009

The debate about the health care system's overhaul is filled with topics and terms unfamiliar to many. Each week, we'll examine some of the issues, the politics behind them and how they would affect consumers. ...more

October 25, 2009

Health insurers have long promoted switching from brand-name medicines to cheaper generics, but now more of them are going further: urging people to take different drugs altogether. ...more

December 13, 2008

Finally, an accelerating trend in health care insurance that's good news for many parents. ...more

June 22, 2008

Some health insurance companies rate doctors on their performance. Now doctors are turning the tables. ...more

June 17, 2008

A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 million in a case against one of California's largest health insurers. ...more

February 24, 2008

While there is a role for the U.S. Congress in big and small matters that concern Americans, most of us are tired of hearing about Major League Baseball's steroid case and the New England Patriot's videotape scandal. For some reason, though, the nation's most important business has been put on hold for hearings and questioning. Sometimes Congress is all we have to hold people accountable, so we don't dismiss their power to call people on the carpet. Sometimes these matters are relatively small. But the Roger Clemens steroid accusations is not a matter that should have members of Congress locked up for days hearing testimony. It serves no purpose. It seems like some members of Congress enjoy the face time they get on these frivolous hearings. They want to fight for the best sound bite, or to see who can best insult someone being questioned. It's one thing when it was tobacco executives sitting there lying to the country about the dangers of their products, and quite another when a baseball pitcher and his trainer are lying about each other. ...more

February 15, 2008

Health insurers trying to boost individual policy sales are making a new push into an older market - the roughly 7 million uninsured Americans age 50 to 64. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - Shares in Wellcare Health Plans were hammered this morning, dropping more than $60 at one point in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as investors fled the stock after a federal raid on the company Wednesday. At 11 a.m. shares were down $60.53, or more than 50 percent, to $54.64. ...more

October 25, 2007