On Health Care, Congress Must Navigate Tricky Political Terrain
The great unknown of the health-care debate as it unfolds in the months ahead is whether the current political landscape will prove more hospitable to mandates, cost controls and tax increases -- all measures now on the table that helped doom the Clinton plan. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins



My personal view is that healthcare costs should not be central in the debate, but the goal to provide medical care to all those who need it. For me, health care is a social task which cannot be reduced to financial "engineering".