Single payer health: it’s only fair
Bernie Sanders: US healthcare is grossly distorted by waste and profit, while millions go uninsured. Americans deserve full universal coverage
What we’re not being told about Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
Dean Baker: The mainstream media has failed to report that the Ryan plan is a privatisation programme that will hand $30tn to insurers
Healthcare debate: do not resuscitate
Pratap Chatterjee: For proof of why Obama's healthcare reform was needed, just look at the epic fraud that has plagued the old system
Health insurers force children into the ranks of the uninsured
Seema Jilani: The modest measures imposed by healthcare reform have provoked a fierce defence of profit ahead of people's wellbeing
Nadja Benaissa’s HIV trial is a distracting sideshow
Edwin J Bernard: Laws and prosecutions as a result of non-disclosure of HIV-positive status are ineffectual, counterproductive and unjust
Jamie Oliver’s US critics
The residents of Huntington, West Virginia tell the Naked Chef to stuff his healthy eating advice
Cigarettes and alcohol and Obama
Richard Adams: A boilerplate note in Obama's medical check-up - mentioning 'moderation in alcohol consumption' - sets off bloggers
Obama pushes healthcare reform plan to break deadlock
Barack Obama embarked on a final effort to push through his troubled healthcare plan through Congress
Healthcare and Bill Clinton’s heart
Richard Adams's blog: Q: Who would heartlessly exploit Bill Clinton's illness to score cheap political points? A: Opponents of US healthcare reform
Students taught how to grow marijuana in Detroit’s new cannabis college
Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicine