The Dec. 28 columns by Blue-State Greg and Red- State Dave, “If you like the post office, you’ll love universal health care,” are almost funny: “funny” for their inanity claiming to be humor, “almost” for the tragedy that some readers might take either diatribe seriously and reject all universal healthcare proposals out of hand.

In Wednesday’s State of the State address, Governor Spitzer is expected to offer up some bold health care reform proposals, including an incentive plan that’s being called a Peace Corp for doctors.

The health of Indonesia’s ailing former dictator Suharto has not improved and is “quite worrying”, with officials on top alert, health minister Siti Fadilah Supari said late Tuesday.

Coventry Health Care has been selected by the Pennsylvania Employee Benefit Trust Fund to provide health insurance to approximately 50,000 of its retirees through a Medicare Advantage Private-Fee-for-Service plan effective April 1, 2008.