If there is not even a hint of a public plan, liberals like Senator Russ Feingold and Jay Rockefeller may stomp off.

ECONOMIST: Health-care reform

Primaries should help that: giving at least the appearance of fairness, they will make it harder for the losers to stomp off and take voters with them.

ECONOMIST: The institutional evolutionary party

Cast members of the off-Broadway musical "Stomp" combine percussion with dancing, so the show needs people with both talents to show up at its auditions in New York.

NPR: Bang a Can: Auditioning for 'Stomp'

But, desperate to keep upstarts from siphoning off their most desirable patients, they are getting laws passed to stomp out the specialty hospital business. (Ostensible reason: Doctors should not be motivated by profit.) Established providers are also blocking rules that would compel disclosure of infection rates.

FORBES: Hospitals' Nightmare