This week marks the final edition of the Weekly Pulse. I have been writing the newsletter since 2008 and it has certainly been an exciting time to be covering health care in the United States. Thanks to all the Media Consortium journalists whose work I've featured over the years, and thanks to our loyal readers, tipsters, Tweeters, and Facebook fans.

As the Pulse winds down, we look ahead to some of the most pressing health-care issues facing the nation: The Republican war on Medicare and Medicaid and the anti-choice onslaught.

89 arrested over Ryan plan

At 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 26, while hundreds were left uninterrupted to wreak havoc throughout the city of Toronto, Chelsea 20, (white shirt), and her friend Bridie (tiedye) were attested during a peaceful protest on King just west of Yonge.

Chelsea (of Cleveland, Ohio) is a Political Science and Latin American studies student at the University of Toronto. She was protesting decisions made by the G20 and the poverty in the world. She sat down with hope that if everyone sat down together, the riot police would have to fall back. It turned out that this was not the case.