Obama and Health Care Reform

Before taking this class--what did you think were the biggest issues in health care that needed to be fixed? What types of stories do you se...

Seven times in the last century presidents have attempted to guide the United States legislature to adopt some form of comprehensive healt...

We’ll just skip right to the good part on this one, because the rest of this gets pretty complicated. After a solid decade of the American M...

Attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s health care plan during the 2008 election were a common occurrence, and these attacks often included at lea...

Lawrence Jacobs is the director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, as well as the Walter...