Jeff Miles says health insurance agents and brokers should talk to antitrust lawyers and find out what they can do about the recent wave of compensation cuts, rather than sitting still and assuming that they can't do anything.

Sen. Hatch seems to have the right stuff to lead on the retirement savings front. Whether others will have the good sense to follow is, of course, another question.

The core problem of the welfare state is that it relieves people of the need for family to take care of them, but it does not relieve society of the need for caretakers.

Health care providers that ventured into the health insurance business a couple of decades ago often found the marketplace a difficult one. In some cases, they paid a price when it came to their ratings by objective third-party agencies.