health care debate

Tempers flared at times during a bipartisan health care summit in Washington. But despite the drama, many Americans greet the health care debate with a shrug.

Why? Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

Democrats and Republicans continue to search for a common ground on the health-care debate. The latest idea: a state-run public health plan.

What would that entail? Tamara Keith reports.

The cacophony of the health care debate, already loud, is likely to become deafening as autumn progresses.

The health care debate is putting climate change on the back burner, which means the U.S. may not pass a law to cut down greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon.

Commentator Dan Esty says that's a cop out.

As President Obama tries to hit the restart button on the health care debate next week, it's make or break time for the public option idea.

That's the government-run plan that would compete with private insurers.

Fortune magazine's Leigh Gallagher and Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon talk with Tess Vigeland about overly optimistic investors, the impact of Cash for Clunkers, and the health care debate.

President Obama is getting back on top of the health care debate though town hall meetings, and he's getting a boost from a $12 million ad campaign that started airing today.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Chris Frates, who covers health care for Politico.

The health-care reform conversation has been more about monetary policy than medicine thus far. So what's in it for consumers?

New York Times' David Leonhardt talks with Kai Ryssdal about the economics behind reform and what that means for taxpayers.

The National Retail Federation is pushing back against Wal-Mart's support of a plan to make employers pay for health insurance.

Is the mega-retailer big enough to tip the balance on the health care debate? Jeremy Hobson reports.

A useful principle of political analysis is to be suspicious when everyone agrees. Which is why the bipartisan paeans to "prevention" in this summer's health care debate have me scratching my head.

It's the one reform on which Henry Waxman and John Boehner can join hands. Don't get me wrong: officials are right to say our system is crazily tilted toward paying docs and hospitals for curing people only after they've gotten terribly sick.