DON SURBER: What kind of health care do lawmakers and Obama get? Related item here.

And reader Mike Winter emails: “There has been much chatter about the highly expensive treatments that patients undergo at ‘the end’ – treatments that cost a small fortune, but only add a year or two to the life of the patient. Isn’t this exactly the type of treatments that Ted Kennedy has been undergoing? And would anyone be surprised if Senator Kennedy only lasts another year or two?… Maybe society would have been better off not spending the money on Ted.”