So, how well will health reform work after it passes? There's a part of me that can't believe I'm asking that question. After all, serious health reform has long seemed like an impossible dream. And it could yet go all wrong. ...more

October 27, 2009

Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday. ...more

October 4, 2008

Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. ...more

August 10, 2008

Hardly anyone would question the need for at least some reform in the nation's entire health care system... ...more

June 2, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton angrily accused her Democratic rival Saturday of deliberately misrepresenting her positions on NAFTA and health care in mass mailings to voters, adding, "Shame on you, Barack Obama." ...more

February 24, 2008

Edward L. Ericson of Dunedin says socialist countries of Europe are economically powerful. ...more

November 13, 2007

The leading Democratic presidential hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by 2013, the end of the next president's first term. ...more

September 27, 2007