Sen. Baucus (D-MT) unveils sweeping healthcare plan

Under the Montana Democrat's plan, all Americans would be required to hold a health insurance policy, going one step further than President-elect Barack Obama's plan.

The Democrats' secret health care plan

But not everybody thinks 2009 has to be a repeat of 1994. Since June, staff members from three key Senate committees--Budget, Finance, and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions--have been meeting regularly to map out a health care strategy for the coming year.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty - NYTimes.com

WHY? Striking new evidence has emerged of a widespread gap in the cost of health insurance, as women pay much more than men of the same age for individual insurance policies providing identical coverage, according to new data from insurance companies and online brokers.

Single-payer National Health insurance!

It's about time we got it here in the United States of America. If anyone remembers the Matt Santos (JImmy Smits)-Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) debate on "The West Wing," Santos suggested the simple way to do it would be to drop the age requirement for Medicare. In Santos' plan it  …

Gouging Women on Health Insurance

Insurance companies long ago stopped charging premiums based on race, even though they offered similar actuarial arguments. There are laws against using gender to set rates in employer-based health insurance.