The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains health care reform at its Web site HealthReform.gov.

Read the text of the nationally televised address to Congress on health care that the president delivered on Sept. 9, 2009, which opened a major new front in a tough fight to develop and pass a reform package.

In his Jan. 27, 2010 State of the Union address the president pledged to keep fighting for health care reform, though it remained unclear how he and the Democrats would be able to pass a bill.

View a variety of recent polls about health insurance reform at PollingReport.com.

The Pew Forum published an Oct. 2, 2009, analysis looking at the two main coalitions of religious groups on opposing sides of the issue.

Nancy Padian is an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the school of public health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a founding faculty member of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the university, a senior technical advisor of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and a consultant for the […]

Chris Collins is vice president for public policy at the Global Health Council, which has headquarters in White River Junction, N.H., and Washington, D.C. The alliance of health care professionals, organizations, academic institutions, foundations and other entities works for “improvement and equity in global health.”

The governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas named Sunday, June 27, a day of prayer for the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, a physician, serves as the United States’ global AIDS coordinator and carries out the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (known as PEPFAR).