Government Health Care

Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O'Brien said in a strongly worded letter that the Archdiocese of Baltimore will not comply with federal law requiring churches to offer birth control coverage even it means dropping health insurance for its 3,500 employees....

PolitiFact has announced the 2011 lie of the year, and it has some liberals in a snit. The lie of the year, which you can find here, is the claim that Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan would have ended Medicare.  It would have changed...

Medicare needs a makeover before it implodes, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) may have just devised a way. If, of course, you're willing to make some concessions. The unlikely pair, as......

Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in 2011, but the economic debate it helped trigger should reverberate deep into 2012. That's the debate over the future of the American middle class. Rarely has its economic plight...

A smile revealing rows of healthy white teeth spreads across 8-year-old Maria McCarthy's face. Confident and poised, the Skokie girl smiles easily. But five years ago, when she arrived as a foster child at the home of Michael and Ana McCarthy, her baby...

When House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan proposed replacing Medicare in the future with subsidies for seniors to buy private insurance, even some of his fellow Republicans got antsy. Newt Gingrich notoriously called the idea “right wing social...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers christen the start of the 2012 legislative session today with midday speeches from Gov. Rick Scott and House and Senate leadership. The session officially starts at 9:30 a.m., which means campaign-checks have to be...

An Indianapolis dentist is accused of pulling teeth illegally. Prosecutors have charged Arnel Gallanosa with several counts of Medicaid fraud, theft, and conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud. According to court records, he would offer patients money...

What a difference a year makes. Fresh off his first year in office, Gov. Rick Scott is demanding $1 billion in new money for public schools. Yep, demanding. During his State of the State speech Tuesday, Scott described the increased spending as "the...

About the last thing you'd ever expect is for conservatives to draw procedural lessons from the founder of the Soviet state. So it's fascinating to ponder the persistence of an attack on Social Security that was explicitly billed as a "Leninist"...