Pennsylvania politics continues to trump health and environment
The latest is how Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the wealthiest and more high-tech/industrial areas of the state from the rural areas.
A big victory for health care
The Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama's health reform law is a huge victory for the American people, and for the president.
“Obamacare” fight could determine nation's future
This fight needs to be looked at in the context of the bigger, rougher national argument over what kind of country and what kind of people we are going to be.
Cuban-style health care in America? Yes we can
Despite the valiant attempts by progressive Democrats to pass universal health care, we got the Affordable Care Act that still leaves several million uninsured.
Universal health care: If Cuba can do it, why can’t we?
So how can we fix this mess while putting the insurance industry out of business and curbing pharmaceutical industries? I look to Cuba as a model.
Shame on the Supreme Court!
The anti-democratic, corrupt right-wing majority on the Supreme Court is again laying plans to nullify the election of a Democratic president.
How Libby, Mont., got Medicare for all
When Senator Baucus needed a solution to a disaster in Montana, he turned to the nation's single-payer healthcare system, Medicare, to solve the problem.
Health care law includes no lifetime limits
Perhaps the most important piece of the new health care law that kicked in Sept. 23 is no more lifetime coverage caps.
The battle over Elizabeth Warren
Who is surprised that the banking industry is drawing a line in the sand to prevent the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer financial protection agency?
Cheers and jeers, from the Gulf to the Vatican
A lot of jeers - for BP, CEOs and Vatican officials - and some cheers too.
