The Republican attacks on our health care apparently have no limits. The Republican Party is driven by a powerful, extremist obsession with turning back the clock on women's health services and undermining the health security of America's families. This was in evidence during last week's budget talks when Republicans were...

The Republican "Path to Prosperity" proposed by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin eliminates Medicare as we know it. The nation's most efficient health insurance program would be turned over to the private insurance industry and seniors issued "ration cards" instead of Medicare cards. Seniors...

The Republican budget proposal released by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would give millionaires and political campaign contributors huge tax breaks while punishing seniors and working families. Ryan's extremist plan would decimate Medicare and Medicaid and terminate the...

The Republicans in Congress are about to show us their cards, and seniors and middle-class families aren't going to like what they see. At a time when U.S. corporations have taken the biggest profits in the nation's history and corporate taxes are at the lowest levels...

On Wednesday the Republicans on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee are holding a "public" hearing about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Penn. Except they're not there to listen to the public and people like Pennsylvania's

On Tuesday Meghan McCarthy wrote a story in the National Journal that asked, "Are GOP Leaders Going Soft on 'Obamacare?'" "Top tea partiers in Congress," she wrote, "openly worry about the commitment to defund the health care law."

Soft on "Obamacare." That's not exactly how I would term...

In a week when the Republicans attacked Planned Parenthood, the freedom of workers to bargain for a better life, programs that help middle class families and a whole lot more, the one thing they didn't challenge was the excessive profits of the health insurance...

With the stalemate over his partisan overreach in its 14th day, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is now wildly violating the most basic principle of governing: If you want to solve a problem, take the deal that gives you what you need, don't hold out for everything you want.

The...

Gov. Scott Walker's attack on Wisconsin's middle class and his plan to take away the rights of public service workers is wrong. It's certainly wrong for the governor to work for corporate special interests like the infamous Koch brothers instead of the people of Wisconsin. And

The battle of public employees for their rights in Wisconsin is about fairness, the preservation and expansion of the middle class and keeping the American Dream alive. In the face of a vicious Republican and corporate assault on the ability of workers to negotiate for a better life, Wisconsin's workers...

The House Republicans seem to be saying yes. Apparently, they think that taking away women's access to reproductive health services is an important way to create jobs and get the economy moving again.

That may explain the urgency of Rep. Mike Pence's disgraceful legislation to

Rick Scott made his fortune in health care by exploiting patients and the federal government as CEO of the world's largest health care company. As governor of Florida, he's now taking away cost-saving health care benefits and patient protections from millions. But this time he's an elected official...

You've probably read by now that Judge Vinson did the expected: The judge gave Republican governors and attorneys general what they wanted, a decision that advances the GOP's extremist agenda to return control of our health care to the insurance companies. This is judicial activism on steroids. Fortunately, the...

During the health care debate in 2009 and 2010, a serious issue emerged -- the number of pages in congressional bills. I'm not kidding. The Republicans wanted short bills, and the health care reform bill was way, way too long (proving that it did too much and would end civilization...

Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced that the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would add $230 billion to the federal budget deficit over 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the decade after that. Since Speaker Boehner and company didn't like those numbers --...

Until this week, the lies about death panels were some of the worst spread by Sarah Palin and the Republicans to scare seniors about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Now there's a real death panel, and John Boehner is in charge -- it's the Republican legislative...

Here's yet another example of how the Republicans, led by Speaker-designate John Boehner, are corporate lapdogs who would sooner throw the country under a bus to help their ultra-rich patrons and corporate sponsors than give working families a break.

This week Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen...

After a day of appropriate flogging in the press and blogosphere for his callous and outrageous hypocrisy on health care, Congressman-elect Andy Harris should formally apologize to his constituents and denounce the Republican effort to repeal the new health care law.

On the campaign trail, Harris railed against government-sponsored...

Here's a crucial fact that should not be obscured by the ballyhoo surrounding the shift in control of the House: Most of the Republicans who won last night got a lower percentage at the ballot box than the percentage of Americans who support the new health care law's requirement that...

Health insurance industry front groups and their allies are flooding the airwaves with political ads presenting false information about health reform and its supporters. Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Crossroads and 60 Plus are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political propaganda to mislead...