Anti-Obamacare ad is not only tone-deaf and creepy – it’s also harmful

Tom McCarthy: Video aimed at getting US college students to opt out of healthcare reforms – without realising they're already rejecting it

LA County’s Measure B is a major win for safe sex in adult entertainment

Gail Dines: The failure to block the pro-condom ballot, for all their political leverage and wealthy donors, is a knock for Big Porn's exploiters

Kevin Powell: If Americans are promised not just liberty but life and happiness, is there not a constitutional right to affordable healthcare?

Dean Baker: The mainstream media has failed to report that the Ryan plan is a privatisation programme that will hand $30tn to insurers

Michael Tomasky: Defending Medicare from the Republicans is not just about healthcare, but the future of America itself

Sarah Boseley: Republicans want US funding cut from family planning organisations that promote abortion

Son Ron Reagan's claim that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while in office leads to war of words with half brother Michael

Amanda Marcotte: Culture warriors try to cast anti-obesity advice as bossy elitism, but the bottom line is we all know we have a big problem

Pratap Chatterjee: For proof of why Obama's healthcare reform was needed, just look at the epic fraud that has plagued the old system