During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama argued against using a hatchet to cut the federal budget. Despite enormous pressure from the right-wing and so-called fiscal conservatives to cut existing programs and scale back his proposed social agenda, Obama said that he preferred to "use a scalpel to cut away fat."

There are times in history when you and I must take action. This is one of those times. An Obama Presidency and a Democratic Congress gives us the best chance yet to win a national, single-payer healthcare system in the US.

Democrats in Congress pressed forward this week with plans to expand health care coverage. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) put out a detailed plan, Nov. 12, that called for a variety of means aimed at different population groups to ensure near-universal health care.

A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to "do the right thing" and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as "an improved Medicare for all."

In a letter of congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama this week, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) called on the future president to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs and impose mandatory funding for benefits for veterans.

Wondering what may be first on the new Obama administration's agenda? At a Nov. 7th press conference, his first as president-elect, Barack Obama announced that fixing the economy is "job one."

The term ecopsychology, first coined by writer and theorist Theodore Roszak in his 1992 book, Voice of the Earth, is loosely defined as the connection between ecology and human psychology.

John McCain's health care proposal would endanger women's access to health care coverage and would fail to fully cover women's health needs.

At the first presidential debate, Jim Lehrer asked the two candidates where they would need to cut back their campaign promises, given the financial crisis. John McCain took the opportunity to say he would do what Republicans always do, feed the military and starve social programs.

In the first presidential debate John McCain professed love for veterans and insisted, "They know I'll take care of them." But his record is making many veterans doubt the basis for that claim.

Should Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin do less campaigning and more governing? Some veterans of the Alaska National Guard returning home from the war zone may think so.

John McCain is losing the health care debate. It is not just that his plan is a boondoggle for insurance companies or that it aims to demolish the employment-based health insurance system and force tens of millions of working families onto the individual insurance market.

Many of us may be too dependent on over-the-counter painkillers to treat the occasional headache, especially given the side effects of such drugs. Ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart and circulation problems and is also tough on the digestive tract.

While the looming economic recession may have displaced the country's broken health care system and the Iraq war as the top concern for Americans in recent weeks, universal, affordable access to health care remains a vital issue for voters.

The same day that Joe Biden was selected as candidate for the vice presidency by the Democratic Party, the campaign of John McCain reproduced several videos of Hillary Clinton sharply attacking Obama.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Barack Obama emphasized the need to bail out working families not just Wall Street at a campaign stop here, Thursday, Oct. 2.

Your sports page may have recently induced an unpleasant sense of déjà vu. A pro football star, by all accounts, seemed caught in a spiral of depression.

More than 300 confirmed cholera cases have been registered in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak began on 20 August, with almost 50 percent of the cases occurring in the past week.

When politicians start to bandy about buzzwords, you know we're in trouble. And when it's McCain talking about health care and the buzzwords are "consumer choice" and "competition," that trouble is deep, very, very deep.

As many as 27 million American workers can expect to lose their employment-sponsored health care benefits if John McCain's health care proposals become law, a new report by the Economic Policy Institute's Policy Center showed this week.