Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Health Care Reform

• How profitable are health insurance companies?, by Tyler Cowen
• Understanding the President’s legislative options for health care reform, by Keith Hennessey
• Clifton Says Health Care Now Liability for Democrats (MP3)

Bloomberg: “Daniel Clifton, director of policy research at Strategas Research Partners, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt about the U.S. budget deficit and the political “liability” that the health-care debate has become for the Democrats.”

Miscellaneous

• Wildfires in Southern California, from the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” blogsite
  
• Finding Good News in the Numbers on Cancer Deaths, by Carl Bialik