A memorandum issued by the Department of Health & Human Services projects the new, voluntary Federal long-term care insurance program will need to charge participants $2,160-per-year and still expects that adverse selection will make the program unsustainable.

Rank-and-file Democrats still await details on the health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week. However, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) already has seen it, and estimates the price tag at $849 billion over a decade.

Under the House health insurance reform bill, those who can afford to buy insurance and don’t will pay a fine. If the refuse to pay the fine there's a threat of jail time. Despite this, today, appearing on ABC News with Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama stopped short of endorsing that threat.

The House of Representatives, spurred on by a call by President Barack Obama to "answer the call of history," did so late Saturday night, passing a bill to expand health insurance coverage to millions who lack it. The vote, however, was a narrow victory, 220 - 215.

The American Association of Retired People has a lot at stake with a potential health insurance reform bill. Until now, the organization for aging Americans has stayed on the sidelines, but now reports are the AARP has decided to back the House version of the health insurance reform bill, a coup for Democrats.

One of the major points of discussion about the health care overhaul in the United States is Medicare. And now that the country is one step closer to universal health care after the passing of the bill by the Senate Finance Committee, the specific changes to Medicare that will take place are becoming clear.

At yesterday's meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, the "Baucus bill," which addresses health insurance reform for the United States, passed in a vote of 14-9. However, now that health care reform is one step closer to a reality, liberals insist the bill is too moderate.

Health care reform has been a hot topic of conversation since before President Obama took office, and today the Senate Finance Committee will be voting on a plan that will overhaul health care in the United States.

In another example of why we need a public option, a 4-month-old baby has been denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. The condition: obesity.

Wait, I don't hear much about Shepard Smith. Perhaps its because he doesn't toe the line with Fox News' conservative commentary. That doesn't make news. Maybe it should.

While the health care debate continues in the United States, there’s one voice you haven’t heard much from: nurses. “While a number of our professional organizations have spoken up and even testified on Capitol Hill about proposed health care reform efforts, nurses have not been asked to the table as equal contributors and participants in the national health care debate,” said T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, Executive Director of NANDA International (NANDA-I).