19 million full-time workers and dependents are uninsured and 11 million members of working families are on public programs

Republican candidates propose to change current way of getting insurance. He doesn't agreed job- based coverage and wants to shift it to an open market where people can choose from competing policies.

McCain has offered his plan for fixing the U.S. Health Care System, but he gets his health care directly and for free from the U.S. government. This is why his health care proposals may not coincide with the reality.

Over at Crooked Timber, Michael Bérubé has an excellent article up which looks at the disability policies of the presidential candidates. What's the bottom line?

Once locked in decades of isolation, Albania is seeing new horizons in the fight against poverty. Expectations run high, driving demands for better – and healthier – lives.

Interestingly, a couple weeks ago the NYT was talking about the widening Life Expectancy Gap in America. It was noticed in 1982. Actually, according to CDC there was something like this going on in 1900 too.

New Obama Attack Ad Features False And Widely Discredited Claims About Hillary's Health Care Plan.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday widened his probe of fraud in the state's Medicaid system, issuing subpoenas to 27 home health care providers in the Binghamton, Rochester and Buffalo areas.

A retired fire service employee has become the 100,000th person to join UK Biobank - the pioneering medical project to improve the health of future generations.

America's aging citizens are facing a health care workforce too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) titled "Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce."

Incorporating health and safety concepts into building plans reduces accident rates and safety costs, according to the PhD defended by engineer Juan Pedro Reyes at the University of the Basque Country

The Coliseum hospital in Macon is participating in recognizing today as National Healthcare Decisions Day, and it is providing information for people to give advance directives to let their wishes be known regarding health-care decisions in a crisis.