Having a divide along political lines is far from a new phenomenon. What we must never forget is that issues can unite us where politics di...

The following information comes from Bill Hawthorne, Public Outreach Assistant at the Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center. If you kn...

Factcheck has an interesting report about the effects of reducing malpractice claims and the impact on health care reform. Factcheck quotes...

To hear it from antagonists of a public healthcare option, the possibility of "Guvment Run Health Care" is likened to a Big Box st...

This is encouraging. Progressive States Network, a group representing state legislators across the country, announced today that 1057 state...

Senators taking a beating from the folks back home are looking for a way to not appear to be kowtowing to insurance interests by proposing a...

Robert Reich , Bill Clinton's old Secretary of Labor and a pretty good economist in his own right (A graduate of Dartmouth College, Reic...

Meet Kevin Shilling from Greenfield, Iowa. Kevin has voted for Reagan, Nixon, George W. Bush and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. Like me,...

Bernie Sanders is not one to mince words. See what you think.

This is yet another example of why we need health care reform. Some people in this story are taking unpaid leave from their work to access f...

I know I should play nice, given my last posting , but this is too delicious not to share. Glenn Beck hung on a pitard of his own making. Th...

I marvel at my fellow Americans. In our individual pursuits of happiness, we some times forget that we are also a nation of individuals that...

Jon Stewart and his writers do a wonderful job of distilling silliness and everybody gets skewered. In case you are actually interested in d...

This post comes courtesy of from the White House's David Axelrod: 8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without...

Lost in the battle of wills and words over health care reform is the fact that 46 to 48 million of our fellow Americans have none and more m...

In July, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan and eight fellow Democrats (Rep. Robert Andrews [D, NJ-1], Rep. Dale Kildee [D, MI-5], Rep. Carolyn M...

Heart throb to the Right, Ronald Reagan, was known for defusing his often younger opponents' views by using the phrase "there you g...

Amy Logsdon provided this link to this Citizens for Tax Justice proposals to pay for health care without hurting the bottom 60% of taxpaye...

In March Families USA released a report that said one out of three Americans under 65were without health insurance at some point during 2007...

I've been taking some time away from blogging because, let's face it, problems never really go away and everyone needs a chance to c...