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Congress Votes to Repeal Small Part of Health Law

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to send the White House its first rollback of last year's health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax reporting requirement that's widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal the filing requirement, which would have forced millions of businesses to...

Opinion: The Jobs and Health Care Connection

Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I finally just got what is bankrupting this country. It came to me when I was getting ready for bed and glanced over at my balled-up pair of arthritis gloves. In the past year, I've been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on all kinds of supplements and drugs, but I thought...

Opinion: The High Cost of Cheaper Drugs

Thirty years ago my infant son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that make even common cold germs potentially life threatening. His disorder -- clinically termed a primary immunodeficiency disease -- started me on my career as a patient activist. Today, my son -- and thousands of others suffering similar diseases...

Opinion: Health Reform's Promises Keep Faltering

(Nov. 20) -- Everyone knows the old cliche – Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But what do you say when you get fooled the third, fourth, fifth or sixth time? That's what supporters of health care reform might want to ask themselves 'round about now. After all, early promises made about the...

McConnell Flip-Flops on Earmarks, But Does It Really Matter?

(Nov. 16) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reversed himself Monday and endorsed a moratorium on earmarks, the sly legislative devices by which members of Congress direct federal funds to their pet projects. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint joined other GOP tea partiers in pressuring McConnell, who has steered about...