Nina Owcharenko
Medicare data tell a different story about a public plan option. Jul 30, 2009
Jonathan Cohn
Do the Democratic plans in Congress ask for changes that qualify as a "sacrifice"? Jul 27, 2009
James C. Capretta
House Democratic leaders have been selling the health care bill -- now reported out by two of the three House committees to which it had been referred -- as costing "only" $1 trillion over a decade. But that's not really the whole story. Jul 23, 2009
Howard Gleckman
There are two separate problems that led to the shortage of health care workers to treat the elderly and disabled. Jul 20, 2009
Michael F. Cannon
Far from being "game-changers," the agreements are the same old Washington game of bribes, backroom deals, profiteering and protectionism. Jul 16, 2009
Jonathan Cohn
Make no mistake: It'd be a huge disappointment not to make progress on cost and quality. But incremental progress is still progress.
Jul 13, 2009
Igor Volsky
If denying important health services to women is the price of bipartisanship, then perhaps winning those one or two Republican votes in the Senate or holding on to some socially conservative Democrats isn’t worth the price of jeopardizing women’s health and well-being. Jul 09, 2009
Bowman Cutter
President Obama has outsourced the writing of health care reform to Congress. What does that mean for the legislation? Jul 09, 2009
Howard Gleckman
Sen. Ted Kennedy's long-term care insurance proposal leaves an important question unanswered: How much would the the premium be? Jul 06, 2009
Roy Ramthun and James Capretta
Much of the health care reform debate centers on the Democratic push to create a government-run insurance option for working age Americans and their families. But shouldn’t policymakers take a hard look at Medicare—-the largest health insurance program in the country--before moving ahead to create something similar for everyone else? Jul 02, 2009