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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...

Who's the Bad Guy in Insurance Premium Hikes?

(Feb. 19) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently told the story of villainous insurance companies charging double-digit rate increases for health coverage while taking "wildly excessive" profits. But economists and health experts said the plot is a lot more complicated. Health insurance...

Opinion: Health Care Reform's Lowered Expectations

Perhaps it's a sign of how far health care reform has drifted off course. Or of how worried Democrats are about getting health care reform passed. How else to explain the Senate leadership's joyful response to a Congressional Budget Office report that finds that their reform plan will do little to lower insurance costs...