The recent death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, apparently of a heroin overdose, says a lot about the epidemic of opiate abuse gripping the United States.
That epidemic, whi...
President Barack Obama has more in common with his Republican colleagues in Washington than he lets on: They all seem to fear what will happen if the Affordable Care Act...
The U.S. State Department finally has given the Keystone XL pipeline an unexpectedly “green” light. In a Jan. 31 report, the agency found the pipeline wouldn’t cause sig...
It’s hard to identify a villain or a victim in the announcement this week that Verizon will move 1,000 jobs out of the area. As with most business transactions, there wi...
NEW YORK — I have sometimes been described as a centrist. And I freely admit to believing that neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on wisdom or virtue....
When Super Bowl ads featuring hybrid dogs and half-naked celebrities hype the affordability of $49 X-rays and the convenience of 24/7 angioplasty clinics, we’ll know we’...
The recent Congressional Budget Office report on health-care reform has lots of good news. Insurance premiums are lower than anticipated, the Affordable Care Act will co...
WASHINGTON — Groundhog Day isn’t just a movie.
Here it is early 2014 — still almost three years away from a new presidency — but it’s high time to mention that Hillary C...
In an effort to cut costs, many insurers in the new state health insurance exchanges are offering plans with “narrow networks” that include fewer doctors and hospitals —...
Bill Gates wants you to feel much better about the future of mankind. Things are looking up, he says, way up.
“By almost any measure, the world is better than it has eve...
