Sunday morning roundup

Dysfunctional health care as we know it: a case study. And a broader perspective.

Ireland remembered what hunger was like and opted to unbite the hand that fed it.

By the way, James Stewart's New Yorker piece that Frank Rich cites, on the eight critical days last September, as lived by Geithner, Bernanke, et al, was excellent (although I can't say I understood it all). And here's the too-true Journal article.