health-care

Free Birth Control Pills (Maybe) Coming Soon

Jeff Neumann · 10/31/10 01:51PM

This is going to sit well with Republicans: Next month a panel will meet to discuss the possibility of providing women with free contraception under the health care bill. Excellent news! The TV pundit yelling matches should be great. [AP]

Elderly People Just Won't Stop Surviving

Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/10 11:26AM

Despite the fact that old people are mathematically closer to death than the rest of us, they just keep clinging to life—and taxpayer dollars. Finally, that may be changing. But the olds are living longer than ever. Thanks, jerks!