Over at Newsweek, Ben Adler describes how the Republican upsets in New York City's suburbs are “an actual bad sign for the Democrats.” I’d actually look a bit farther east to include the results in Connecticut as another reason for concern.

Medicare and Medicaid aren't the only public insurance programs that could undergo a major overhaul under the current health-care reform bill. Over at The Washington Independent, Mike Lillis explains how the House bill proposes to eliminate CHIP -- the state children's health-insurance program that has enjoyed broad-based support from Democrats -- and move the low-income children covered by the government program into the health-insurance exchanges by 2013.