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Republicans are offering to bail out a financially strapped program in the federal health overhaul, one that's a lifeline for uninsured people with medical problems. Truce in the health care wars? Not!

Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico.

A number of victims of last week s Boston bombings now face numerous challenges with lost or maimed limbs.

What began as an energetic effort to finally get something new on gun control on the books wound up last week in defeat after defeat, and the bill was finally pulled. There s no telling when it will return.

PUBLISHED: 12:50 GMT, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 12:52 GMT, 19 April 2013 Irish debtors must give up foreign holidays, satellite television and feed themselves on eight euros (about £6.80) a day under ...

It has been six decades since doctors concluded that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but today the condition still dwells on the fringes of the medical community. Only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United States goes toward addiction, and few alcoholics and drug addicts receive treatment. One huge barrier, according to many experts, has been a lack of health insurance.

People in this Gypsy village say they will never forget the night they almost fell off their chairs two months ago.

An indictment says a Texas company that provided health insurance to Virginia Tech students fraudulently overstated claims by more than $9 million to boost its profits.

The free meals doled out by Silicon Valley titans such as Facebook and Google may soon carry an additional burden for employees: the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly weighing whether ...

American insularity, French insecurity, Canadian unexcitability, British embarrassment - Adam Gopnik on the inherent foibles of four countries close to his heart.