"...it was acknowledging what veterans have long claimed: in addition to 13 ailments already traced to exposure to the chemical, it was also responsible for three more dread diseases -- Parkinson's, ischemic hedart disease, and hairy-cell leukemia."

This is where the rubber meets the road. After months of delay, the full Senate is about to debate and vote on landmark health care legislation. But first, Senator Harry Reid and Democratic leaders have a big decision to make:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who is suffering from brain cancer and has missed most of the sessions of the Senate this year, has sent a letter (PDF) to Massachusetts leaders asking for a change in state law to allow his seat in Congress to be more

In the week that Britain's National Health Service was held aloft by Republicans as an "evil and Orwellian" example of everything that is wrong with free healthcare, these extraordinary scenes in Inglewood, CA yesterday provided a sobering reminder of why

The pending health care bill in Congress is a complete disaster. It should be called the Health Insurers' & Doctor Prosecution Bill. The bill does nothing to reform health care, & everything to line the pockets of Health Insurers.

President Obama has now essentially killed the "public option" for health care reform. Without a public option, health care reform legislation becomes nothing but another Corporate Welfare program, allowing the health insurance industry & Big Pharma to f

It's a myth that doctors, especially fee-for-service doctors, are running up the cost of health care. There is no factual or logical basis for this claim.

The "public option" remains a huge point of contention in the health care reform debate. Though Obama appears to have at least heard the outcry against dropping the public option, he appears to be ignoring it--based on his and his minions' public statemen

This article exposes the behind the scenes links between corporate American vested interests, and the mobs of right wing thugs who are out to disrupt Town Hall healthcare meetings.This is shady,scary ,ugly and anti-democratic.

It's time to come to the defense of the public option, and define what it actually means. Maybe it should be labeled the "non-private-insurance" option, or even the "Medicare-lite" option. Though government funding if often assumed from the "public option