Growing up without a father left a painful hole in his heart, President Obama told a lawnful of boys at the White House yesterday in a remarkably personal Father’s Day weekend message. He implored fathers everywhere to stay home and stay involved in the lives of their own children.

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Senior House Democrats yesterday introduced their plan for reshaping the nation’s healthcare system, calling for a new government insurance option program, a new mandate on employers to provide coverage, and a new guarantee of subsidized healthcare for the poor.

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When President Truman had his shot at universal health care in 1949, the American Medical Association unfortunately made use of Sir Luke Fildes’s famous painting, “The Doctor,” in a negative campaign. “The Doctor” happens to be my favorite painting, mostly because of the story behind it: Sir Luke Fildes lost his oldest son, Phillip, on Christmas Eve, 1877; despite the tragedy, he was so impressed with the physician who cared for the child, that for his first commission from sugar merchant Henry Tate (who would go on to establish a collection and gallery in London by his name) he chose to depict “the physician in our time.”

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Nonprofit health-insurance cooperatives are gaining favor among lawmakers working to revamp the U.S. health-care system, but whether these entities could rein in prices by competing with private insurers is unclear. The idea, first floated by Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, represents a compromise on one of the most contentious points in trying to craft a bipartisan bill.

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