The White House and the health insurance industry descended into open conflict on the eve of a critical Senate vote that could determine the fortunes of Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans

The prospect of a government-run health insurance plan in the US appeared to be losing support as senators charged with formulating a bipartisan healthcare reform bill met to hammer out a compromise deal

A new climate of enmity between the White House and the insurance industry raises the spectre that other key healthcare players could now also oppose health reform

Two more e-mails on the US-vs-UK debate, beginning with the view from California: I was interested in your friend's discussion of the financial problems that would affect his family were he to lose his employer-provided healthcare because, being self-employed, I do not get employer-provided health insurance. I am 51, my wife is 49, we have 2 children living at home and our monthly health insu...

Women pay more for health insurance than men, have more extensive health needs than men, OK, that seems entirely logical: more health care needs, then insurance for health care will cost more. Men pay more for car insurance, men, because they die earlier, get more each year for any given amount put into an annuity….. But the

Alistair Darling MP, Labour’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to a ComRes poll showing a majority of Tory MPs support the introduction of health insurance or tax breaks for healthcare fees, said: “Tax breaks for private healthcare would take money away from the health service and undo the real progress we have made with

Barack Obama encouraged Congress to strip health insurance companies of their federal antitrust exemption, part of his efforts to increase competition and lower costs in the healthcare industry

Below is a Democracy Now video interview with Wendell Potter, the former the chief spokesperson for Multi National healthcare insurance giant CIGNA, who became the private insurance health care industry’s most prominent whistleblower to date.  When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the US healthcare sys...

The Democrats' healthcare proposal, though flawed, would move the US much closer to universal health insurance and take steps towards better control of costs. Neither should be postponed

Health insurance companies are on the verge of a Faustian bargain that will take the rest of us down with them.