At a time when Republican challengers should be stepping up to fight for next year’s nomination, the field remains as muddled as ever.

It only took a decade or so of new stories, scientific studies and common sense – and premiums inflated enough to make college tuition look modest – but it looks like wellness is catching on.

There’s a lot going on in the news this week.

Based on all the headlines and talking heads, the economy’s purring back to life.

What would we ever do without California? I can’t think of another state more inept at balancing its budget. Hell, they make the feds look like penny pinchers.

Anybody else find it ironic, karmic, or just plain funny that Massachusetts – the state that drafted the template for the federal health reform law looming over us – has suddenly bucked its “maverick-y” ways and jumped on the organized labor beat-down bandwagon.

This might not come as news to you, but younger adults are flocking to their parents’ health plans at a record clip this year.

Jeremy TuckfeltPresident, Tuck EnrollPittsburgh