Brian Higgins

Yesterday, thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow's Red Square to protest President Putin's party of crooks and thieves. The protesters chanted that they want to make Russia free and that they want to live in a modern…

A major western New York health insurance provider announced today that they are seeking an almost 50 percent increase in health insurance premiums next year. They cite rising medical and drug costs as reasons for seeking this increase…

Well, why wouldn't that--I mean, it is a public program. Why wouldn't that be--if we are looking at designs for greater efficiency in the delivery of services and lowering costs, it would seem to me that the amount of money that we spend…

Do you know what is going on with UnitedHealthcare right now? The United States Department of Justice has just joined a lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare for allegedly defrauding the Medicare Advantage program out of hundreds of millions…

This is fraud. This is stealing money from the American people in the Medicare Advantage program.

The President in his first budget does nothing, absolutely nothing to seriously grow the American economy.

China is making an aggressive move to challenge the United States' global leadership.

Under your budget, 3 million wealthy Americans get a $213,000 tax cut; 240 not so wealthy Americans get a $210 tax cut.

Economists right, left, and center say the tax cuts don't pay for themselves and they never have.

It was reported in The New York Times on Monday that UnitedHealthcare and four of the Nation's largest health insurance companies concocted a scheme to defraud the Medicare program and the American people out of tens of billions of dollars…

There is something underlying that isn't being addressed, and I would argue that it is income inequality.

Last night we learned that President Trump may have tried to interfere with an ongoing investigation, asking the FBI Director to end an investigation into his former National Security Adviser's ties to Russia. The Justice Department today…

For the third time in 90 days, Republicans are trying to take away patient protections for Americans with preexisting medical conditions. Fifty percent of all Americans and 86 percent of Americans ages 55 through 64 have preexisting…

the United States Government is a massive provider of health coverage for people.

It seems to me that the Federal Government should be a lot wiser in using the leverage that it has.

That is a lot of leverage to drive down the cost, not only of prescription drugs, because you are buying medical services generally.

The stated objective of health care reform, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, call it what you will, was to do two things.

President Trump wanted to cut $1.2 billion from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. Instead, Congress will exert its independence by rejecting the President's cut and will instead increase National…

The new Republican healthcare scam, again, slams good hardworking Americans with higher costs and less healthcare coverage. Fewer people will have healthcare coverage, and insurance companies will increase their already record profits. And…

While the President continues to drone on about his southern border wall, a wall that he told America Mexico would pay for--which, of course, they will not--a wall that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports will cost Americans…

From the North Atlantic to the North Pacific, to the Baltic Seas, the Russian people are standing up to Vladimir Putin and his decades of egregious corruption. The protests in Moscow are punctuated with chants that Putin is a thief. And…

Word coming out of the White House and House Republicans is that there is a new healthcare bill, and this bill would obliterate the patient protections for preexisting conditions and eviscerate essential benefits and cost controls. Under…

In 2009, when gas prices were very high and our dependence on foreign oil was at its peak, the Environmental Protection Agency set standards to increase fuel efficiency of trucks and cars. This helped achieve three main goals: It lessened…

Last week's healthcare disaster was instructive because, in the end, it was never really about health care at all. Your plan was a thinly-veiled scheme to deliver a massive tax cut to health insurance executives and their cronies…

This never needed to be an ideological fist fight. Democrats were always willing to take into account serious and constructive alternatives to the law that we have today that make it better, to make it affordable, more affordable for the…