Symbolically close to Veterans Day, the embattled secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric K. Shinseki, announced that his department had reduced its backlog of overdue disab...
WASHINGTON — The New Republic magazine was, appropriately, the stimulant that last week gave the Democratic base a frisson of anticipation about a possible Elizabeth War...
Faced with a growing public backlash to the 2010 health-care law’s insurance reforms, the Obama administration decreed Thursday that consumers should be allowed to keep ...
“Even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”
— Bill Cli...
If a man owes the bank $10,000 and can’t pay, he’s in big trouble; but, if he owes $10 million and can’t pay, then it’s the bank that’s in big trouble.
That’s the hidden...
In 1996, by a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate defeated a bill outlawing job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Last week, in a step that dramatized how much ...
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be a great advance in fostering access to medical insurance. It would contain costs, guarantee coverage, simplify consumer shoppi...
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, the one “must read” from the latest Sunday papers is an essay in The Washington Post by Jon Kingsdale, who ran the health exchange for ...
WASHINGTON — In spite of everything — the GOP’s internal scrimmages, the government shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derail Obamacare — Republicans keep get...
World Diabetes Day is Nov. 14, and we urgently need to address this plague right here at home.
Diabetes is a major public health problem — an epidemic — in the United St...
