Health Care Reform

The Democratic National Convention relied on at least $5 million in corporate donations, despite repeated pledges by top party officials only to use money raised from individuals.

Mississippi has long been one of the sickest and poorest states in America, with some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease and more than 1 in 7 residents without insurance. And so you might think Mississippi would jump at the prospect of billions of federal dollars...

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney teed up the last three weeks of the presidential election as a question of which man voters can trust to improve the economy.

As a lifelong member of the mediamainstream and otherwiseIm still baffled by the coverage choices sometimes. Almost as much as I am by the increasingly histrionic reactions by the readers (users/viewers/whatever we call them now).

Health care is weighing heavily on the minds of voters, as its considered to be the second most important issue in the presidential election, topped only by the economy.

A study out Monday says most Medicare recipients 59 percent would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system, with wide regional differences leading to big hikes in some states.