Health Information

President Obama tells the crowd in St. Louis, MO that the time is now to pass health insurance reform and announces new plans to rein in waste and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs.

www.pbs.org Meet Wendell Potter. Bill Moyers interviews former health insurance industry executive Wendell Potter, who left the field after almost 20 years to become a health reform advocate. Check out Potters personal story here and tune in to Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings www.pbs.org ) for [...]

March 4 (Bloomberg) — Linda Douglass, a White House spokeswoman for health care, talks with Bloombergs Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about how legislation overhauling the US health-care system would address increases in health-insurance rates. President Barack Obama and US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with executives of the top health insurers [...]