Dr. Jay Buckey: You're already benefiting from 'socialized medicine' (New Hampshire Union Leader)
NOT TOO long ago, I struck up a conversation with a man who was holding a sign outside a polling place. He asked me what I thought about health care. As a doctor, I've seen many of the problems with our current health care system, so I told him that I thought we ought to have a universal health care system.

Living in Mexico could be an affordable retirement option (Austin American-Statesman)
Standing on our 10th-floor balcony at the Westin, my wife hands me her binoculars. "I think they added the verticals for another three floors while we were having lunch." She points to the framework for yet another skyscraper along the Banderas Bay shoreline.