Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.

NPR: Orszag Eyes Swift Spending Of Stimulus Funds

Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

You pledged, A, that you would bend the cost curve, and B, that you Democrats would be able to campaign on this.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama News Conference

President-elect BARACK OBAMA: It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

NPR: Obama Must Manage Great Expectations