A Health Care Model For Failure (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Socialized Medicine: Anyone who thinks a national single-payer system would be an improvement isn't paying attention. Medicare, which provides coverage for less than 15% of the population, can't get it right.

Analysis: Obama outreach to GOP a balancing act (AP via Yahoo! News)
In his first days on the job, President Barack Obama has acted to appease core Democratic interest groups, making good on a few campaign promises and shoring up support among key constituencies as he reaches out to Republicans on the big economic stimulus package. It's a balancing act.

Chattanooga: A silent killer (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Though she d lived with type-2 diabetes for eight years, Shirley Jackson said the news that her kidney function was declining came as a shock.

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Hospices win $134M in stimulus (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
When the Bush administration last year cut what Medicare will provide for hospice care for dying patients, the hospice industry fought back.