Commentary: Bush's healthcare legacy

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New York Times, January 5, 2009

This editorial from the New York Times notes that while the Times has criticized the Bush administration's weak performance on many important healthcare matters, Bush can also lay claim to some signal achievements in healthcare that Barack Obama can continue and develop further.

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