I feel like we've been debating to the point of excess recently. Right now, we're all about the gun debate. And the debt ceiling. And abortion. And Lance Armstrong.

And maybe it's partly the industry I cover that's so prone to getting people fired up about things that I feel it even more—what's causing rising health care premiums? Can the government really tell us we have to buy health insurance? Whose fault is it that we're getting so fat? Should we raise the Medicare age?

Sure, I like a good debate as much as the next person, but it makes me a little worried about our quick reaction to cry controversy when it's over the flu.