To hear some people tell it, the number of people without health insurance in the United States is vastly overstated.
There are the illegal immigrants, the argument goes, and then there are those who can afford to buy insurance but don’t…

Despite a lot of attention paid to sometimes raucous town hall meetings in August, a majority of Americans feel “shut out” from the health care debate, a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health shows. An NPR story reported that 71 percent of respondents…

American taxpayers already have spent more than $2 trillion bailing out banks and insurance companies. Can we afford to reform health care, too?
It’s an understandable question, one that will be at center stage today when the White House hosts a…

With the meltdown of the American financial system dominating news reports, another long-running crisis continues unchecked, squeezing American businesses and workers as never before.
Last week, the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation reported that family health insurance coverage provided by an employer now…

Medicaid is like a parachute for thousands of Missouri and Illinois families: Most of the time, they don’t need it. But when the economy slows down, nothing else will take its place.

It plays the same role for economically hard hit…

A slowing economy and higher out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs mean growing numbers of even insured families are having difficulty paying for their medications.

We’ve written extensively about the problem in print. USA Today published a new report last week based on…