How miserable are we?

Well, not as miserable as we were in 1960 -- at least according to the "health care misery index" devised by Rexford Santerre, a professor at the Center for Health Care and Insurance Studies at the University of Connecticut School of Business.

Santerre's index represents the percentage of Americans without health insurance plus the percentage by which the annual rise in medical costs exceeds general price inflation. Read his op-ed piece in today's New York Times.