Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.