James Oliphant

Q. What guarantees are there that there will be no rationing of health care or pharmaceuticals under the bills under consideration in Congress? A. The White House and Democrats argue...

Q. Where do the various health care bills in Congress stand? A. There's a single House bill that was tweaked last week by the Energy and Commerce Committee. It appears...

Q. In his speech to Congress, President Barack Obama talked about savings that could be achieved by changing Medicare. Will that affect the services I receive from the program? A....

Aiming to move the health care debate beyond its current acrimony, President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a compromise that he said would improve medical insurance for Americans who...

As a soft twilight fell over the nation's capital, Sen. Edward Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday in a simple ceremony on a sloping site in Arlington National Cemetery. Kennedy's...

The battle over abortion is creating new hurdles in the effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system. Some conservative House Democrats are threatening to pull their support from the...

Lawmakers are considering options and costs for insured and uninsured Americans. Here's a look at some of the issues: Q. Why does the nation need to overhaul health care? I...

After a fierce legal battle and a vote recount that stretched on for seven months, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that Democrat Al Franken should be certified as...

An elderly Maryland man with a long history of ties to neo-Nazi organizations allegedly walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday and opened fire, killing a security guard,...

It did not take Sonia Sotomayor long after she moved the 60 miles from the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of the Bronx to the rarefied campus of Princeton University to make...