Today, at a White House summit on fiscal responsibility, President Obama made it clear that health care reform will remain at the top of his domestic policy agenda. But this wasn't his first move to repair some of the more grotesque flaws in the nation's dysfunctional "system" of medical care....

So at his last - and possibly most surreal - press conference as president, George W. Bush broached the delicate subject of his "handling" of the response to Hurricane Katrina, the now famous killer storm that devastated the Gulf coast and flooded much of New Orleans in September 2005.

Here's a top contender for the most egregious political strategy of the current campaign season: the ObamacCampaign is now circulating a mailer that resuscitates the images of "Harry and Louise," the notorious stars of a political ad that was part of a $300 million campaign by the health insurance industry...

It doesn't take a Nobel laureate to know that the national economy is in trouble. But what may be less clear is how much the nation's health care crisis both exacerbates and will, itself, be worsened by growing economic troubles. The leading two Democratic presidential candidates get this, but only...

The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on Mississippi and Louisiana was marked by the expected media flurry of solemn tributes, reminiscing, recriminations and painful expositions of "where are we now?" It was in this last category where we were treated to the now familiar images of the lower...