Should Health Insurance Pay for Prayers for Healing?

If the Los Angeles Times is to be believed, the Senate health reform bill requires insurers to consider covering prayer "treatments...

A Moral Conundrum in Massachusetts Health Reform

The Massachusetts legislature is beginning to deliberate about the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System's recommendation...

Gallup distills its polling on health care reform into five major themes ( hat tip ).

Are Health Insurers Villains?

Since I direct the ethics program at a health insurer (Harvard Pilgrim Health Care - a regional non profit company serving 1.1 million membe...

How Closely Have People Been Following the Debate?

The Kaiser Family Foundation survey has been asking a question this year that attempts to gauge how closely people have been following the ...

CBS News polling director Sarah Dutton examines trends in support for a public option, including the effects of question-wording ( hat tip ...

Insurers and Health Care Costs

In a recent interview, Senator Olympia Snowe commented - "We need a lever to force the [insurance] industry to drive down prices."...

Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal examines conservatives' criticism of question wording on the public option in a recent poll.

Andrew Gelman uses 2000 and 2004 polling data (2008 are not available) to examine support for federal spending to expand health-insurance co...

Is Ethics Relevant for Health Reform?

As I sat down to prepare a talk on health reform and ethics I'll be giving soon, a Tina Turner song started to play in my head - but wit...