A Battle Foreshadowing a Larger Health Care War
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The fight over child health care shows how hard it will be for Democrats to sell Republicans on universal insurance.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, both have plans to lower rising health care costs and broaden health insurance coverage for Americans, but their visions would take health care in two different directions.
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With complicated and costly "biologics"  increasingly seen as the wave of the pharmaceutical future, health care experts warn that they will drive the nation's fast-growing bill for drugs far higher.
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News that the largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States plans to absorb six hospitals operated by the Archdiocese of Boston triggered a debate yesterday about the future of Catholic healthcare in the region.
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HAMILTON, Mont. -- Sen. Conrad Burns gazed at a debate audience and asked if anyone could guess who was blocking efforts in Washington to control health-care costs.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new. For a decade, virtually the entire political class and opinion elites have said our health care is not ...
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The state government is scrambling for a solution to the medical malpractice insurance quandary. While everyone agrees a solution must be found, differences abound as to what that solution might be.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry are offering distinct plans to help Americans cope with the rising costs of health care.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are promoting very different plans for improving the nation&#39;s troubled health care system, either of which could dramatically change how millions
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The multimillion-dollar lobbying effort to expand a children's health insurance program is creating some strange bedfellows.
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GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That&#39;s according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction - the state is expanding its role
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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Both presidential candidates agree the American health care system is troubled: Coverage is too costly, too many are uninsured. But President Bush and Democratic
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Traumatic brain injury cases, the signature wound of the Iraq war, are leaving the military health care system scrambling.
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A surprise fight over breast cancer threatens to eclipse tobacco and trade as issues in the final week of a down-to-the-wire fight for the North Carolina seat in the U.S. Senate being vacated by Democratic running mate John Edwards.
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As rising health costs erode profits, U.S. corporations are expected to warm up to health care reform under the next president -- a prospect that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.