Michael Hiltzik: In 2020, the health care debate will be inescapable

Ben Franklin may have been wiser than he knew. When he declared in 1789 that the only certainties in life were death and taxes, did he foresee that both would still be at the center of America's politics 230 years hence, in the guise of our seemingly interminable debate over health care reform?

Health care was a dominant theme in the six Democratic presidential debates staged from June through December, and it's a fair bet