In Washington, “healthcare reform” has degenerated into a sick joke. The House bill will launch this country into a new phase of healthcare apartheid.

The insurance industry is the major problem in health care and Americans know it, but the Democrats are on the verge of forcing Americans to buy insurance while failing to solve America’s health care crisis.

Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary.

Lobbyist out, lobbyist in. It’s why they always win. They’re been plowing this ground for years, but with the broad legislative agenda of the Obama White House - health care, energy, financial reform, the Employee Free Choice Act and more - the soil has never been so fertile.

These are literally people who are paying off our government to make sure they don’t have to compete, whether it’s the too-big-to-fail banks or in this case the health insurance companies…

The Democratic supermajority fails to pass a public option, but don’t worry. Senator Max Baucus will pay for your medical bills from the $3.2 million he’s received from the health care industry.

The president’s health care plan is designed to preserve the parasitic private insurance industry a little while longer. In this context, the public option is a cruel and cynical hoax, an excuse not to abolish the role of private insurance death panels and toll collectors in the nation’s health care system.

The essential information Americans need to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform.

The only obstacle to passage of the president’s health care — or health insurance legislation is the White House itself.

These next several weeks and months are critical in redirecting our country away from Common Destruction and towards the Common Good. Decisions will be made which could send hopes for health care, education, living wage jobs, a new environmental policy crashing upon the shoals of never ending war.

Big Pharma’s PR Ploy: Is the industry’s contribution to health care reform just a scheme to keep us overspending on prescription meds?

The time is now to take on the powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and pass a single-payer national health care program.

Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the healthcare industry.

A study published by the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that major US, Canadian and British life and health insurance companies have billions of dollars invested in tobacco companies

Never have we been closer to realizing the dream of healthcare as a human right than we are at this moment.

This piece will focus on the irrationality of a privatized health care system which values the wealth of a handful of CEOs over the health and very lives of our people. It will explain what corporate America and their bought-and-paid-for politicians do not want you to hear…

“Yoga Master” Tara Stiles on how living healthy will lead to overall happiness.

Big Pharma and Big Insurance are gaining ground in their campaign to kill the public option in the emerging health care bill.

This year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy. A new study suggests that 60% of them are actually capsized by medical bills.

In the United States, 13 states currently allow citizens to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, but even these limited rights are under threat.