Dan Callahan
It began with a little black spot on Dan Callahan’s lower lip. He didn’t think it was anything to worry about. His doctor thought it was cancer.
The doctor was right.
It was neurotropic melanoma, a very rare — and very…
Protesters demand health reform at a rally outside Blue Cross headquarters in Los Angles last month.
Nothing about health care reform has inspired more overheated rhetoric than the so-called public option.
Opponents say it would unleash a government juggernaut against which no…
Tim Blacke
When doctors found a tumor in Tim Blacke’s brain, health insurance was the last thing he worried about. That was his first mistake.
For nearly two decades, he’d worked for internationally known evangelical minister Josh McDowell. During that time, Mr.…
Extreme Truthiness, Health Care Edition: Comedian Stephen Colbert.
An interesting e-mail about health care reform has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. It doesn’t provide any great insight into the bill it purports to analyze, H.R. 3200, or contain…
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was on a roll.
“Nothing makes me more angry … than the suggestion that America does not already have the finest health care in the world,” the Senate minority leader said Monday at a forum in…
Betty Feliciano had classic symptoms of heart disease: swollen ankles, shortness of breath and fatigue. Doctors at the Crider Health Center in St. Charles ordered a cardiac stress test.
Ms. Feliciano didn’t get it. “I knew I needed” it, she said.…
Critics are questioning whether health care reform will force middle-class families out of the insurance plans that currently cover them. The better question is whether the insurance plans that currently cover them — or, more precisely, the price of that…
Post-Dispatch file photo.
By any standard, American health care is the world’s most expensive.
• We spend twice as much per person as the average of other large developed nations — $6,714 in 2006, compared to $3,414. In 2008, per person spending is…
