Private Health Care

If the U.S. Supreme Court throws out the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, then where would that leave health care and the ranks of America's 30 million uninsured? Conversely, if Obamacare and its mandate for all individuals to buy health......

by Mark Silva When all the pushing and shoving over healthcare is finished, when a bill of some kind is enacted - and count on the Democrats to pass a bill of some kind, with or without Republican support -......

Don't let the venom and bad manners in some of the town hall meetings on health care distract you from the real issues involving the availability and affordability of medical insurance, President Obama told listeners this morning in his weekly radio...

by Mark Silva The protests over healthcare reform? A "side-show.'' That's how Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, described a lot of protesting outside of the "town hall'' meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., yesterday where President Barack Obama was...

by Mark Silva and updated Harry and Louise aren't the only ones touting healthcare reform on TV. Americans United for Change, the union-backed organization aligned with the Obama administration on reform, is airing a new cable TV ad nationally that......

by Mark Silva With the White House this week gearing up a campaign to dispel "misinformation'' about the healthcare reform that President Barack Obama is promoting, the president today says that it's important to quell the "outlandish rumors''...

by Mark Silva The vocal few standing up at summer "town hall'' meetings with complaints about the president's proposed healthcare reforms aren't the only ones with concerns, polling shows. Slightly more Americans disapprove of the president's handling...

"The public option... is not the entirety'' of health-care reform, the president says in the encounter shown above in Colorado, where a young man challenges the president to an "Oxford-style'' debate on competition in health-care. by Andrew Zajac The...

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has pledged to bring the troops home from Iraq while the American deployment in Afghanistan grows, faced the Veterans of Foreign Wars today in Phoenix. The U.S. has placed more than 60,000 troops......

by Mark Silva In Florida, which President Barack Obama carried by a 2.5-percentage point margin in the 2008 elections, the president's public approval level has fallen below 50 percent among voters questioned for a new survey. The virtually even split.......

by James Oliphant Wyoming, with an economy marked by farming, ranching and small businesses, has a disproportionate number of people without medical insurance. And by that measures and others, its people are among the likely winners, if Congress...

By Mark Silva The White House blames "political groups'' for distributing its emails about health-care to people who complain that they never asked for any White House email, while suggesting that its online health-care "Reality Check'' site has become...