Forget the 8-ball, health care is behind the glacier in terms of top issues the public is sweating as elections near. One opinion poll lists it floe-ing behind the economy, the war and the price of gas. Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg told the Washington Post: ''For a lot of people who have health insurance, they are paying more for health ...

Lots of smart people like to offer their view of life's niceties and lunacies ''from the 30,000-foot level.'' I came across one by a doc from a specialty near and dear to my heart -- emergency medicine. Dr. William Mallon is the new president of the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. (You'll find wildly ...