You remember what the president said, don't you? "You like your plan? You can keep it. No one is going to take that away from you."

As if the end of summer weren't bad enough, we have the U.S. Census Bureau sending us off into the cool, dark days of autumn with a double dose of bad news.

I suppose it's only fitting that on the eve of my 40th birthday I get an e-mail touting the latest retirement survey.

While everyone bickers over health care reform and all of its mandates, no one seems to be paying attention to the pharmacist behind the curtain.

Principles can be a pain - especially when you have to actually stand by them. Take that growing number of health care reform opponents.

every time I hear about or see some new poll or survey, I always consider the source and temper the results with a little cool-headed detachment.

Guess that's what you get when you throw a bunch of insurance commissioners in a room and tell 'em to figure what Congress meant when they passed health care reform.

I'm told we're in recovery.