Well, cheers to former state Sen. Tom Patterson (Opinion 2, Sunday) for finding a new approach in the Republican battle against federal health care legislation, but jeers for a somewhat ridiculous and wholly specious argument based on states' rights.

A coalition of labor unions, liberal activists and health care groups will launch a big-bucks nationwide campaign for universal health care today with rallies at the state Capitol and more than 50 other cities.

Conservatives really wanted a fight about religious freedom. It appeared to be an easy win: turn an ObamaCare mandate that insurers cover birth control into a war on religion. The GOP, void of any ideas Obama hasn’t contaminated by agreeing with, finds itself in an election year frantically looking for a bold battle cry. That sweet hot button issue that can excite their party and (hopefully) win them the White House (or maybe the Senate).

When my neighbor, who operates a small business, had a stroke, the first thing that came to mind as paramedics wheeled him away was, "Does he have health insurance?"

When Rebecca Bryant, a coding specialist for Scottsdale Healthcare, was scheduled for knee replacement surgery last December she asked her employer if she could telecommute during her recovery.

Home and business owners won’t pay a new property tax right away to help the Maricopa County health care system.

ANNANDALE, Va.  — President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday. Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job. The president hugged her — she's a volunteer for his political operation — and called her "exhibit A" in an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans.

Health care workers across Arizona saw their wages increase an average of 2.7 percent over the past year, a new survey by Scottsdale-based WageWatch shows.

Arizona State University's Tenai Roan is one of five winners of a scholarship from the United Health Foundation's Diverse Scholars Initiative to pursue a career in health care. Roan, who is junior studying nursing, intends to pursue a career as a nurse practitioner.

I am astounded that the EVT would publish the commentary by Susan Stamper Brown regarding the Affordable Care Act. I fully understand everyone’s right to free speech, but this commentary is so full of falsehoods, innuendo, half-truth, and outright lies as to be a farce. Publishing this commentary is pretty much the same as supporting the right to yell fire in a crowded theater.

WASHINGTON — Some are already anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law as the "decision of the century." But the justices are unlikely to have the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. The problems of high medical costs, widespread waste, and tens of millions of people without insurance will require Congress and the president to keep looking for answers, whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality.

 Austin Hill: Terry Goddard, this is your moment. Arizonans need you to step up. As health care “reform” legislation was moving through the U.S. Senate, which passed its version of a bill Thursday, attorneys general from multiple states began to announce that they are launching investigations into the legality and constitutionality of the Senate health care bill.

Arizona voters may not get a chance to decide if they want to constitutionally block universal health care.

WASHINGTON — Buying your own health insurance will never be the same.

A state House panel voted Tuesday to allow Arizonans to opt out of any new national health care plan adopted by Congress.

To all who are clamoring about not providing birth control because it’s against a particular religious belief, think about this: Let’s say a religion (i.e. Catholicism, Mormonism, etc..) believes that no one should be having sex out of wedlock. Let’s say that leaders of this religion decide that since any single people who contract a venereal disease obviously are having sex out of wedlock, they’re going to refuse to cover the treatment for VD contracted by single people. How many would be in favor of denying health care and/or antibiotics to people who might die without them? It’s the same argument that’s being made over birth control. Do we really want to decide who’s entitled to health care based on religion? It’s a slippery slope people.

Churches and businesses are sponsoring Compassion Queen Creek from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 10 at Walker Butte Elementary School, 29697 N. Desert Willow Blvd., in Johnson Ranch to provide a day of free medical and dental services to those who are uninsured or underinsured. More than 50 social service agencies will be there to help and everyone will be fed a free breakfast/lunch while they wait for their medical and/or dental appointments.

Gov. Jan Brewer wants lawmakers to give her permission to sue the federal government over the new health mandate.

OUR VIEW: The United States is witnessing an unusual outburst of philosophical activism this August as Americans by hundreds of thousands are loudly (and sometimes rudely) protesting efforts of President Barack Obama and Democrats to expand government control of private health care.

Saying they are working to prevent socialism, members of the state House voted 34-19 Thursday to ask voters to block the federal government from forcing Arizonans to enroll in any universal health care program.

President Barack Obama returns to Arizona this weekend, his third visit to the state in his first eight months as the nation’s chief executive, to take in the Grand Canyon and address how the United States cares for its military veterans.

Dr. Eric Novack: If you had even a few minutes last week to watch President Barack Obama’s “health care summit,” you saw quite the spectacle: The president of the United States and the leaders of both political parties arguing over microphone time and getting nowhere fast on what most of us agree is one of America’s top priorities. Reforming our nation’s broken health care system.

The top House Democrat fired the first salvo Tuesday at a ballot measure designed to stop lawmakers from limiting the health care choices of Arizonans.

We’ve heard a lot from state and national political leaders recently about the need to reform the U.S. health-care system, and not least to extend coverage to the 47 million Americans who lack insurance.