health care debate

For the roughly 160 million people who receive health insurance through an employer, the result of the long, angry health care debate in Washington may be just more of the same.

A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the Senate's health care debate, ran into resistance Sunday from lawmakers who can make or break Democrats' efforts to reshape the nation's health insurance system.

A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's efforts to reform health care.

(Carnegie Mellon University) A new Web site, www.DeathriskRankings.com, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon allows users to explore differences in the probability of dying across European countries and the US states for men and women of different ages and races.

Connecticut officials are demanding to know if the state's five largest insurance companies have sent policyholders information about a possible impact on Medicare of health care changes debated in Washington.

Some companies are advocating for health care reform in the hopes that they can have a say in a

Some companies are advocating for health care reform in the hopes that they can have a say in a plan that would provide them some financial relief, but the strategy carries risks.

President Barack Obama is in a town hall in New Hampshire and the people are extremely polite or there is respect for the president when he shows up and he says the system needs fundamental reform.