health coverage

As the health care legislation starts to take effect, the Obama administration is trying to defuse resistance by granting insurance waivers to maintain minimal coverage.

Americans express conflicting goals: many want more capitalism and less government, while others want a safety net for those who have lost their jobs and their health coverage.

Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin, author of The Populist Persuasion, notes that "Big corporations and big government can be seen as parts of the same problem."

A top House Democrat is investigating whether the nation's largest health insurers have deliberately canceled coverage for small businesses after their employees became sick and sought expensive treatment.

House Democrats are crafting a plan that would require all Americans to carry health insurance and would help families making less than $88,000 pay the premiums.

Employers, too, would have to help foot the bill.

Some strategies, both before and after losing a job, to safeguard medical benefits.