USA Today reports that funding for WIC, a nutrition program that mainly serves pregnant women and infants, may be in jeopardy. Half a million people could be cut from a nutrition program for low-income young children, pregnant women and recent mothers next year because prices and caseloads have risen since President Bush proposed his 2008 budget in February.

The Center on Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), an agency in the US Department of Health and Human Services, just released a plan to make Medicare's payments to hospitals more efficient.

Today's New York Times editorial, Faux Fiscal Discipline, makes an important point. As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush boasted that, after accounting for inflation and population growth, he'd exercised fiscal displine as Governor of Texas. By his own standard, then, when "adjusted for inflation and population, Congress' proposed increases amount to zero." And yet he has seen fit to issue veto threats against every congressional spending bill that does not cut spending in real terms as much as he proposes. The editorial concludes: