If you want health insurance but cannot afford it, the health care reform bills being considered by Congress will "provide" it to you. But if you simply do not want health insurance, health care reform will "impose" it on you. Both the Senate and House health care reform bills strive to make sure all Americans have health insurance. The differences in how they do that are important to you. (more)

It's unfortunate that GBA's Lynn Mueller decides to stick himself in the past throughout his entire column, starting out with a quote from former president Abraham Lincoln - using the famous "Of the People" quote to defend anti-government. (more)

In his speech to Congress promoting his health care reform plan, President Obama stated, “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.” While that is true, you also need to understand that nothing in the plan prohibits your employer from changing your coverage and thus, your doctor. (more)

Certainly the scariest rumor surrounding the health care reform bill holds that the bill would establish mandatory government "death panels" assigned to encourage elderly Americans to opt-out of life extending treatment in order to reduce Medicare expenses. This rumor is false. (more)

Wondering what that health care reform bill really says? Now the Government Printing Office (GPO) has published an authenticated copy of the bill, (H.R. 3200), America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, on its Federal Digital System web site. (more)

Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius suggested that the Obama administration might be willing to consider nonprofit insurance cooperatives as an alternative to its controversial government-run public insurance plan. Nonprofit cooperatives are far from a new idea. In fact, you may already belong to one. (more)

When Bill Frist tried to shut down filibusters it was decried as "The Nuclear Option". But when Senate Democrats talk about doing the same thing to ram health care reform through it's "advanced legislative acrobatics" using a procedure "officially known as reconciliation". (more)

Support for the health care reform bill is eroding on both sides of Congress after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the bill intended to cover about 97 percent of the U.S. population with health insurance would actually raise health care costs, rather than lowering them. (more)

President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors he opposes their highest legislative priority, limiting malpractice awards, and earned a smattering of boos from an audience he was here to court for his health care overhaul plans. (more)

The most important asset that President Obama has in his effort to transform health-care policy is the consensus inside Washington that he will succeed. As long as the major interest groups believe that a liberal health-care bill is going to pass, they will work with its sponsors rather than incur their wrath. As long as Republicans believe a bill will pass, they will offer modest amendments instead of going all-out in opposition. This consensus has not been conjured out of thin air. The Democrats hav... (more)