Phillip Crivellone, the son of a nurse and a social worker, graduated from Brother Rice High School and earned his bachelor's in English-Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
No, I'm not going to Madison. Scott Walker is a buffoon but he's not Hosni Mubarak. Scott Walker did not the rig the election. He was voted in by the people of Wisconsin with a near...
The much-touted Republican midterm campaign promise of voting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care law, has been postponed along with all other legislative business for the 112th Congress. The...
A report last Thursday from the Department of Health and Human Services on the dramatic rise of private health insurance premiums disturbingly highlighted the unsustainability of the current health care system and the ever-growing need for reform. Despite a...
Gov. Pat Quinn named Dr. Quentin Young, a long-time physician-activist, Illinois' Public Health Advocate at a press conference Saturday in Chicago's Thompson Center.The position, created by Gov. Quinn last November, focuses on assisting residents in understanding...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, attends a news
conference on Capitol Hill,Tuesday, with Senate Finance CommitteeChairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)Just after 1 a.m. Monday morning Senate Democrats, previously...
In the United States--at least according to the Department of Health and Human Services--poverty is defined as any individual that earns $10,830 or less a given year, or $14,570 for a married couple. The number...
Last week the Senate voted 53 to 41 to slash Medicare payments to home health agencies that provided nursing and therapy for homebound Medicare beneficiaries. Republicans voted against the cuts, saying they would further hurt some of the nation&rsquo...
Hundreds of layoffs in the Cook County Hospital system have sparked anger from hospital workers, union leaders and health care activists as 335 employees were given pink slips last month with further plans to cut more jobs and vacant positions...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., is poised to bring a health care bill to the floor of the House of Representatives as early as tomorrow.Yet, as House Democrats finalize the language of the bill before it is brought...
A senate bill set to scrap the payment formula used in Medicare payments failed to pass a senate vote yesterday 53-47, as 12 Democrats and one independent abandoned Democratic efforts to reach a compromise the...