Health Care Reform

Might Obamacare's poor showing today at the Supreme Court offer a silver lining for those who favor expanded access to health care?

The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court debate on health-care reform offers a prime time to start televising its hearings and allowing cameras in the courtroom.

Keeping individual health information private is good thing, but so is aggregating that data to improve care in general. Can those competing good ideas find a happy medium?

It's the president of the free-market-minded Galen Institute versus a pediatrician/activist for a single-payer system in spirited debate on improving American health care.

Partisan opponents of last year's omnibus health care reform in the U.S. have a multitude of legislative tactics they can summon to keep the law from taking effect.

A new study finds palliative care doesn't put patients out of their misery; it puts the misery out of the patients.

From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies.

The debate about health care often focused on the legislative circus tricks employed by all.

While the big health care summit was kind of artificial, it still let real people participate (at a remove) in real time.

Research shows that in Canada, health determines who sees a specialist, but in the U.S., income does.

Depression-era health solution may find new favor in the modern American struggle for health care change.

How to change minds about the need for health care reform? Get out your handkerchief.

Our Joan Melcher visits a town hall featuring Barack Obama and reflects on the nature of free speech.