Playing with Percentages: Health Care in America

9% From June 2009 to March 2010—the heart of the health care debate—only 9% of media stories about health care reform actually “focused on a core issue — how our health care system currently functions, what works and what doesn’t,” according to a Pew Research study; the study says that 41% of health care stories were devoted to tactics and strategies for getting reform passed (or not), and 69% of Americans said the debate was hard to follow

Cheapskate Wisdom from … Former Chairman of the American Medical Association

“You can do more for yourself than I can do for you.”

Who is Screwed the Worst?

Nowadays, everybody from recent grads to hopeful retirees to union workers is being forced to make due with less. But who has it the worst?

Doctors Say: No Healthcare for You!

Is the American Medical Association’s opposition to a government-funded healthcare plan really about money? Or control? Something else?