You’ve heard of Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, right? Blogger, author, No. 26 on Forbes ‘ list of “The Most Influential Women in Media,” outranking Soledad O’Brien and Andrea Mitchell? This week she talked about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with Nancy-Ann DeParle on Twitter. Dooce  posted questions to @whitehouse and DeParle, the Director [...]

Fourteen attorneys general are going to court to challenge the new health insurance reform law. You can call to congratulate or condemn this decision if you live in any of these states: Alabama Colorado Florida Idaho Louisiana Michigan Nebraska Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Texas Utah Virginia Washington Florida’s attorney general is leading the charge [...]

President Obama signed the health insurance reform bill today at the White House. Meanwhile, the Senate is preparing to take up a bill that makes changes to the brand new law. The 153-page list of fixes includes: Scaling back the tax on “luxury” health insurance plans Increasing the subsidies the government will provide to insurance [...]

President Obama and Congress are going once more into the breach on health care reform.  Whatever one’s political views about the issue, the notion of “health care” writ large puts policymakers at odds with the way Americans think and learn about their own health issues.  Policymakers talk about “health care” as though it is a [...]