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President Barack Obama today addressed the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. He discussed the future of the health care system and asked for their help with health reform.
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.
Labor leaders are worried as congressional Democrats weigh various health care overhaul proposals. Unions oppose taxation of employee benefits and want a strong public insurance plan to compete with private insurers, but some Democrats say they're open to compromises on both issues to attract Republicans and fiscal conservatives in their own party. Unions have pledged to spend $80 million in their campaign to influence legislation.
Young adults who are ousted from their parents' health plans are among the largest and fastest-growing groups of uninsured.
Three decades before President Obama went to Chicago to speak to the American Medical Association, a Carter administration official delivered a similar message to the nation's physicians.
It's almost crunch time: Influential senators involved in drafting health care legislation say they will begin unveiling bills within days. That means the real debate is about to begin. The big question: Where will the opposition come from and how intense will it be? We consulted policy and political experts to find out what they think will happen next.
Will allowing younger people to buy coverage ease a health-care problem or break an already overburdened program?
The White House provided a transcript of President Barack Obama's town hall meeting on health care today at Southwest High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Some people who qualify for the economic stimulus package's COBRA subsidies are still waiting for the "lifeline." Reporter Rick Schmitt, who was laid off in November, writes about the hurdles he has experienced while trying to get the subsidy.
Emergency room doctors noticed the difference. Many of their "super user" patients weren't coming around much anymore.
People young and old crowd the hallway outside the locked door of the Arlington Free Clinic. They grip small pieces of paper that will determine whether they get in -- or give up and go home.
The Clifford's struggle to pay for treatment of their serious medical problems.
One woman's medical bills and debt from an emergency hospitalization exceed her annual salary.
Jim and Jackie Eyler, of Westminster, Md., are employed, insured and unable to pay down a $10,000 credit card balance.
Bankrupted by nearly $100,000 in medical debt, the Eaker's are now barred from a large clinic.
The rising costs of care and a failing economy drive more Americans into medical debt.
For single mom, credit card was no panacea for an Orthodontist's Bill.
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