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How health care reform really could get repealed—and why the repercussions would go well beyond health care. “The legal debate surrounding repeal is complicated and multi-dimensional. But part of it revolves around a novel philosophical twist: a distinction between activity and inactivity that, repeal advocates say, makes the insurance requirement an illegitimate exercise of federal […]

Ken quit his job running a health club in Loudoun County to care for his only son. Every day, he brushes Ryan’s teeth and bathes him, administers 50 medications, feeds him through a tube attached to his stomach, changes his catheter, stretches his limbs and talks to him with the hope that his son can […]

What a Texas town can teach us about health care.

Sometime in the next few weeks, Congress and the White House will descend into the labyrinthine politics of comprehensive health care reform. For Barack Obama, this signals the end, in a sense, of the eventful prologue to his presidency.

Why is the most powerful health care lobbyist playing nice? Story on Karen Ignagni

A doctor explains why it doesn’t pay to stay well. Decoding what works, what falls short in Obama’s plans to reform health care

Inside the fight for universal health care.

Obama may be impervious to the demons of 1994, but his party is still haunted by the failure of Hillarycare.

The 1975 antitrust decision that gave you physician-owned hospitals.

And the Oklahoma man — eighth-grade teacher by day, militant blogger by night — who may personify it more than any of the conservatives who, when the town halls pass, may be pointing the way to a holy war that goes way beyond health care