Fear of insurance penalties keeps Huntington’s sufferers in the shadows
The neurodegenerative disease is said to affect seven people in 100,000, but experts believe the proportion is higher
Obama pushes healthcare reform plan to break deadlock
Barack Obama embarked on a final effort to push through his troubled healthcare plan through Congress
I don’t need a war to fight my cancer. I need empowering as a patient
Mike Marqusee: Using the martial metaphor for something as complex as cancer makes the disease ripe for political and financial exploitation
PruHealth policyholders hit pain barrier as insurer cuts gym discounts
PruHealth scheme members are venting their anger at a controversial change to the insurer's terms and conditions, reports Jill Insley
Unfair insurance law may be overturned
The publication of a parliamentary bill could do away with a law that punishes insurance claimants for honest mistakes
Middle classes must lose benefits
Andrew Haldenby: Our wasteful welfare system has decoupled work and reward. Help for the poorest should be handled at a local level
A revolution in care
Jackie Ashley: Conference season 09: Setting up a National Care Service would be equivalent to the creation of the NHS – now to tell the public what social care is
Dying for affordable healthcare — the uninsured speak
Ed Pilkington travels to Quindaro, Kansas, to see how the poorest survive without healthcare provision
American healthcare is in truth already rationed
Bee Lavender: Growing up sick in the US, and being treated by a humane NHS here, has shown me that Britain's system is far better