Government Health Care

Baltimore area hospitals provide the best patient care in the country, according to a new survey. Nearly half of the area's hospitals - nine out of 16 - are in the top 5 percent of all of the hospitals in the United States, according to the survey by...

HARRODSBURG — Rand Paul didn’t make the meal — Dunn’s BBQ did — but the upstart U.S. senator certainly had folks eating out of his hands Thursday at a Mercer County Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Unlike when he visited...

Health care reform got you confused? Not sure what to make of it all? The University of Maryland Medical System and several community groups are holding a community forum tomorrow to answer your questions. The forum is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the...

I urge my fellow citizens not to give in to despair over the choices being offered in this year's presidential elections. As an independent who is fiscally conservative, socially liberal and believes there is an appropriate role for government in our...

I'm part of the new "get lost" generation of folks over 65 that many are complaining will financially destroy our fragile economy ("Aging out of health care?" Jan. 19). I know that I'm old and that math has never been my strength, but writer Lisa Pevtzow...

Gov. Martin O'Malley today submitted what is likely to be among the most controversial budget proposals in his two terms in office. Faced with a $1 billion gap between projected spending and revenues, and committed to a goal of finding real solutions to...

Teachers, local elected officials, affluent Marylanders and health care providers are among those likely to be aggrieved Wednesday when Gov. Martin O'Malley releases his budget for next year. As part of a plan to address Maryland's $1 billion budget...

Gov.Martin O'Malley's administration is proposing to establish a number of health enterprise zones to address the glaring health disparities along racial and class lines that end lives prematurely and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a...

Melissa Clark sat wide-eyed and agitated in a visiting room at Cook County Jail's Cermak Hospital, rocking her right leg so vigorously that her entire body shook. Why can't you bail me out? she repeatedly pleaded to her mother. Carla Clark leaned...

Kansas: El estado de transición del Estado 2012 Otorgado por el Gobernador Sam Brownback 11 de enero 2012 Sr. Presentador, señor Presidente, Legisladores, Magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Kansas, los líderes las naciones nativas soberanas de Kansas,...

As President Barack Obama presses forward with his signature health care law, his fellow Illinois Democrats running state government have waited more than a year to win federal approval for a new plan to fight fraud in the health program for 2.7 million...

++++++++++++++++++++ || HHS launches Strong Start initiative to increase healthy deliveries and reduce preterm births || || To help reduce the increasing number of preterm births in America and ensure more babies are born healthy, HHS Secretary...