Both of Virginia’s U.S. senators say they will vote to allow debate on the Senate version of health-care overhaul legislation, but neither has committed...

More than 100 people gathered outside the downtown Richmond offices of Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today to protest the proposed health care plans...

Sen. Mark Warner said he wants to see more cost containment in the Senate’s health care bill before he can support it. The Senate version is better...

Workers afraid of layoffs didn’t rush to doctors’ offices this year to use their health-insurance benefits as some had predicted, according...

An Associated Press poll says most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care.

The cost of retiree health care is turning into a hot-button issue for state legislators and local officials, who will learn today how much more local...

Virginia and its localities should stop building more prisons and jails because a decade-long building program has led to undercrowding, a state budget...

Durwood Usry is a small-business owner with a complicated health history and a big monthly insurance bill. “My health policy costs more than my mortgage,...

It’s hard to recall an issue that has sparked as much heated debate as the current effort to reform the American health care system. Emotion has...

Patricia Churchill posed the toughest question of the day to two Virginia congressmen at the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Public Square on health care...

About 23,000 of Virginia’s uninsured are getting continuous medical care through a program run out of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Health...

Members of the Danville TEA Party reportedly plan to burn Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy Nov. 21. Perriello last Saturday...

A trillion here, a billion there, and pretty soon we’re talking real money. The House of Representatives has now passed its version of health care...

As a physician who practices extensively within the Medicare system, I can speak about the role government plays in American health care. As a result of...

According to the clichés of political discourse, the Obama administration is trying to “move the country forward” by, for example, overhauling...

Ronald Reagan famously said, “The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps...

The Times-Dispatch will hold a Public Square on health care reform tomorrow at 10 a.m. in our downtown office at 300 East Franklin St. Two of the Richmond...

Health care reform has two goals: to control our gargantuan health care costs and to enable people, especially sick ones, to buy health insurance at an...

As President Barack Obama prepares to address Congress on health care reform, America’s pro-life movement is gassing up. If Obama hasn’t liked...

This will be a long ride, so hold on. In a post on dickmorris.com, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann write: “As if Obama’s health care proposals...

When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook...

I’m a big believer in skepticism. I don’t take things at face value. I know, for example, that 2+2=4. People who do math for a living tell...