That's certainly been a defining characteristic of Nashville's health-care industry.

This is the benchmark. All of us are aware that Nashville is a great health-care industry capital. We really wanted to quantify the impact the industry has here in the region.

He's not going to stand by and let this problem become an even heavier burden on the city-county health clinics in Montana.

In traditional Medicare, over 97 cents of every dollar spent goes to directly providing health care. Under the Part D disaster, we are just starting to see the enormous cost of privatization.

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

These are the same dollars used for health care, public safety and education. We would need to know where the funding would come from.