Americans, it appears, will have health care reform whether we want it or not. And most of us don't want it, polls show. That doesn't seem to matter to Congress, which in a frenzy of deal-making came up with a near-incomprehensible mess of proposed changes to a health-care system that serves most people well. ...more

December 27, 2009

Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate today over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans sworn to block. ...more

November 30, 2009

Why not just leave the health care alone, but just help us by governing what we have? It's really not all that bad. 1. One significant change would be to drop the pre-existing conditions. That way more could get their private insurance. Responsible people want their own to start with. 2. Just keep our prices affordable. ...more

November 11, 2009

The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. ...more

November 5, 2009

As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in health bills. Those in their 50s cost at least 10 times more. The effect of proposed health care reform - which limits the ability of insurers to charge higher premiums for older adults - would be, he said, a large shift of America's health care burden to the younger generation. ...more

November 4, 2009

There are endless parts to the analysis of health care. It is incredibly convoluted, yet nobody has tried to simplify the task. ...more

November 2, 2009

Where were the tea baggers when President Reagan tripled the national debt? (Baggers consider him God-like.) ...more

September 23, 2009

Have you ever withheld medical information or symptoms from your doctor? If your answer is yes, you're not alone. ...more

August 11, 2009

About 3.8 million uninsured Floridians can start applying for low-cost health coverage through a new state program on Jan. 5. ...more

December 11, 2008

Regarding "Both McCain And Obama Offer Health-Insurance Headaches" (Our Opinion, Sept. 29): ...more

October 4, 2008