In closing its doors, Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, leaves the city without a hospital to treat low-income, poor and undocumented people who need dialysis. More...

New reports show that rural Americans are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured than their urban counterparts, making health care reform a critical issue in large parts of the South even as some Southern politicians fight efforts at reform. More...

The Movement Vision Lab highlights the impact health reform in rural areas, where people have been hardest-hit by the breakdown in our health insurance system. More...

The West Virginia lawmaker, a longtime champion of health insurance reform, says the public option is necessary to make coverage affordable. But his proposal is expected to meet stiff resistance from his Finance Committee colleagues -- some of whom have been raking in contributions from lobbyists representing the industry whose profits are at stake. More...

With concern growing over the racially charged rhetoric in the current political debate, we look at the hard numbers on racial resentment and how it relates to support for health insurance reform. More...

The Arkansas Blue Dog who's fought to scale back health reform faces questions over a land sale to the nation's 5th-largest pharmacy chain -- and a major player in the health care debate -- that netted Rep. Ross and his wife over $1 million. More...

Ten U.S. Senators, half of them from the South and all Republicans, voted against an amendment that would have required health insurers to stop ignoring state laws that ban insurance discrimination against domestic violence survivors. More...

Crystal Lee Sutton, whose role in organizing a North Carolina textile plant was memorialized in the award-winning film starring Sally Field, battled her insurance company over its decision to refuse needed treatment, which she called abuse of the working poor and likened to murder. More...

A by-the-numbers look at the increasing monopolization of the health insurance market. More...

Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of President Obama wasn't his first time in the spotlight -- as a state senator in the 1990s, he emerged as one of the fiercest defenders of flying the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina capitol, even calling the Confederate heritage "very honorable." More...

Last night was not the first time Rep. Joe Wilson sparked controversy by shouting at a political opponent -- but it hasn't prevented his campaign from enjoying the financial largess of health care interests. More...

In the months following Katrina, chilling reports of the euthanasia of patients at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center emerged. A new report by ProPublica aims to shine a light on "what happened in the frantic days when Memorial was cut off from the world." More...

As the health care battle continues, the Obama administration is starting to make a moral case for health reform. But on the ground, grassroots activists are already busy working to reshape the language of the debate -- they're pushing for the right to call health care a human right. More...

As reform advocates step up their organizing, town hall meetings have calmed down and leveled-out the debate. Just over a week ago, advocates in Rocky Mount, NC didn't find it so easy to speak out. More...

Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) is pointing to rural electric cooperatives as a model for health care in opposing a "public option." But just last year, Cooper authored a journal article taking electric co-ops to task for a wide range of "deeply troubling anti-consumer behaviors." More...

The strategies used by the "tea-party" clique were perfected in fighting progressive immigration reform. Now the new battlefield is the health care reform town hall meetings, reports Henry Fernandez. More...

The Texas Republican and former House Majority leader stepped down from his job with the law firm DLA Piper after controversy over his leadership of FreedomWorks, a corporate-funded group that's helping organize rowdy protests against health reform. More...

Facing South helps change the national debate on health reform; Town Hall Tracker launched; Big Oil hops on the town hall train; and most dispatches on the Southern wing of the Obama backlash More...

Help us watchdog town hall meetings being held by members of Congress across the South -- see our first video from Rep. Brad Miller's town hall in Raleigh, North Carolina! More...

A longtime proponent of advance care planning, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says the effort to portray such planning as creating "death panels" is "nuts." But he's no fan of the Obama administration's reform plan, either. More...