a revenue-neutral proposal has an uphill struggle.

More and more people are going without coverage or with less coverage, and that trend looks like it's going to continue.

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

Bush's program has two components, one of which is real and immediate. The other, in football, would be called a Hail Mary pass.

From a financial standpoint, it's meaningless. People can buy savings bonds now,

They're getting paid more, too,