"I've been doing this for seven months," she says, of her role as Exhibit A in the health-care debate.

The current health-care debate has many echoes of the fight over Medicare in the sixties.

The health-care debate goes on the road.

In the health-care debate, those are fighting words.

The fight over medical savings accounts goes to the heart of the health-care debate.

Shocking though it is, politics also seems to figure in the health-care debate.

Of course that's what the health-care debate is about, too, so I'm eager to read her Dec. 2 piece.

For one thing, it explodes some myths in the current health-care debate.

The difference in views illustrates a central question of the current health-care debate: where is the line between medical necessity and economic luxury?

In 2010, Obama was again featured in reference to the health-care debates of the time and his proposed health plans.