– Editorial – - Bipartisan deal is a breath of fresh air

Each May, about 4 million young people graduate from high schools, across the country. The ceremonies are similar. Family, friends and relatives, gather on football fields or gymnasiums. Music plays and young people in robes, solemnly process. Speeches are given. Tears are shed. There is polite laughter, as the school official delivers the same joke, for the 23rd year in a row. Names are cal...

Small business owners are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of healthcare. Nearly a third have stopped offering health benefits, as premiums continue to climb. It is critical that lawmakers understand the reasons for rising costs and begin to address them – or small businesses will continue to drop health coverage, because of unsustainable costs. One of these reasons, is hospitals ex...