Democrats will this week push forward with their plans to pass healthcare reforms in spite of continuing Republican opposition, with Congressional leaders saying "time is up" for discussion on the year-long effort to overhaul the US's $2,500bn medical system

Democratic efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system received a significant boost on Tuesday when Olympia Snowe, the moderate Republican from Maine, said she would vote in favour of the bill before the powerful Senate finance committee, which was passed by a vote of 14 to 9

Liberal senators will make a renewed push to introduce a public medical insurance option to the Obama administration's healthcare reform plans, as the influential Senate finance committee resumes deliberations on a draft bill

Senators on the powerful finance committee on Tuesday introduced 564 amendments to the controversial healthcare reform bill introduced by Max Baucus, the committee chairman, as the wrangling to overhaul the US's $2,500bn medical system continued

Republican senators on the influential finance committee failed to delay Democratic attempts to pass a healthcare reform bill, saying detailed information about the cost of reform was needed before they could vote

Barack Obama, US president, continued to push his plans for healthcare reform calling the current system 'unsustainable' and arguing that an overhaul was the most important thing for the health of America's economy

President Barack Obama's efforts to overhaul the US's healthcare system received a major fillip on Thursday when two influential organisations endorsed a reform bill that will be put to the vote in the House of Representatives on Saturday

While we’re talking about healthcare in various countries, here’s the greatest experiment yet in moving from a public to a private system. It failed. Over the past few decades of economic reform, the Chinese healthcare system has witnessed a dramatic...

Members of the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives have pledged to overturn the healthcare reform law that Democrats passed earlier this year

With all the talk of healthcare reform in the United States, I read a sickening story of how a hospital is telling dying patients arriving as emergency patients that either they pay up front or they won't be treated. What a foul, warped society to produce such a system. Does the Hippocratic Oath mean nothing to these heartless doctors? Surely it is time for a more compassionate healthcare sys...