Five Steps Toward Reviving Health Care Talks

USA Today's opinion blog offers five ideas that could help restart negotiations on national health reform. They include: eliminating sweetheart deals (see Nebraska), holding firm on cost-controls and imposing some type of tort reform.

And in a piece called, "Finish the Kitchen," The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne borrows a metaphor about a fraught kitchen renovation to nudge lawmakers to get back to the table and hammer out a health reform bill soon.