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Sen. Max Baucus told single-payer advocates Wednesday that he regrets not allowing more discussion of the single-payer plan in attempts at health care reform, but that it's too far along in the process to consider it now.
How Congress decides several important issues could affect how millions of Americans get and pay for insurance and medical care.
The man originally designated to run President Obama's health reform effort debated President Bush's HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt about possible overhaul legislation.
President Barack Obama urges reform of the U.S. health care system in a meeting at the White House with Senate Democrats.
The ranking member of the Finance Committee says reform won't get done "if this is not bipartisan."
Doctors across the country are reducing their charges and offering payment plans to patients who have lost health insurance or income. This helps people stay well, but it also helps doctors maintain their practices at a time when many financially struggling Americans are deferring care. Patients who don't pay their bills still run the risk of hearing from bill collectors.
The new head of the White House Office of Health Reform predicts there will be a health care reform bill on President Obama's desk by Thanksgiving.
With the health care debate about to erupt on Capitol Hill, a look at three ways it could turn out.
A battle over whether to build a new hospital in northeastern New Jersey illustrates the formidable obstacles confronting President Obama and Congress as they try to mine savings from the $2.5 trillion health care system.
This documentary explores the severe challenges cancer patients can face in paying for their health care even when they have private health insurance.
Sixty-year-old Ron Gaston was a shipping and receiving clerk in Wichita, Kansas, who earned about $30,000 a year.
Already, you can hear the opponents of health care reform making a familiar argument: It will mean huge new taxes. Although they're exaggerating--the tax hikes wouldn't be "huge"--you should be willing to pay these new taxes. Happily.
As congressional Democrats prepare to deliver on President Barack Obama's goal of "expanding coverage to all Americans" an important question remains unanswered: is universal coverage worth the money? Not only is there "no evidence" to show that universal coverage is the most cost-effective use of our $2 trillion, the benefits may not exceed the costs at all.
Sen. Ted Kennedy is vowing to make long-term care insurance part of health reform. But even he has an uphill struggle to make sure it's included in any broad-based bill.
If Congress wants all Americans to get health insurance, it will have to win over people like Gary Cloutier, owner of Cloots Auto Body Shop in Westfield, Mass. He says he just can't afford it.
This webcast features Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., at a Health Care Reform Newsmaker media briefing sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business.
Young adults who are ousted from their parents' health plans are among the largest and fastest-growing groups of uninsured.
This May 7, 2009 webcast features Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), senior member of the Senate Committee on Finance, and ranking Republican on the panel's Subcommittee on Health Care.
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