As the House and Senate begin work to merge their respective health reform bills into one comprehensive piece of legislation, one early victim of compromise may be a government-run health insurance program.

The U.S. Senate passed a health care reform bill today (Dec. 24), excluding a government-run insurance plan, but calling for sweeping changes in the nation’s $2.5 billion health care system

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Sen. Joe Lieberman appears to be one — if not the only — Democrat-leaning legislator in the Senate (or the House, for that matter) who is seriously considering the consequences of …  Read →

Congress is in a state of confusion when it comes to what role states should play in insurance regulation. On one hand, Congress wants states to make a key decision …  Read →

Thomas Schaller attempts to break down what happened to the public option he says Democrats wanted most in any serious health care reform package, calling the effort at this point …  Read →

I just don’t get it, but then again, I’m just an ordinary citizen taxpayer who is concerned about the direction our president is taking us.

President Obama is pushing Congress to …  Read →

From their own mouths come the words that they use to describe the future of single-payer, universal, socialized health care: “It will come.”