When Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the CA budget, he used his line-item veto power to slash millions of dollars of funding for children's health care services, HIV/AIDS testing and prevention, domestic violence shelters and many other core programs.

Everyday it gets harder to think of the whiny Republican hate speech as sheer coincidence. Instead, it's beginning to look inevitable -- so much so that maybe the real question is, What is it about health care that brings out the latent racism in the GOP?

Keith Olbermann calls out Sen. John Thune, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans - whom he argues are owned by the insurance industry - as well as a few Democrats, too, like Blue Dog Senator Max Baucus of Montana...

The House approved a bill Friday afternoon to provide $2 billion to continue the federal government's week-old "cash for clunkers" program, which has proven so popular with consumers that it was almost out of cash.

Except for soldiers and caregivers, Americans don't know much about death. The question President Obama took from Mary in North Carolina at the AARP Tele-Town Hall on Health

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin steps down Sunday giving few clues about her political future, which has been

Reporting from Washington -- Ted Kennedy wakes up mornings in his house on Cape Cod to a packet of news clippings put together by his wife. If there's a hearing going on in Washington, he watches on his computer.

That the Obama administration has crafted and is trying to push through an unfathomable, over one-thousand page piece of shit legislation that in no way ends the health care crisis, and in fact, strengthens the power and position of the private insurance

American health care is reeling because it is a profit center where gouging is the norm. For-profit clinics and hospitals print money, paying out hefty dividends and huge salaries to management. Not-for-profits operate along similar lines. Ask Michell

President Obama finally admitted what we have known all along. "I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is that unless you have a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, you're not going to reach every single individual"...