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

a revenue-neutral proposal has an uphill struggle.

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,