HEALTH REFORM -- December 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM EDT

Profiles in Health Care Reform

By: Lea Winerman

As the Senate manuevering over health care reform reaches a fever pitch, the NewsHour has been taking a look beyond the political debate at how the bills making their way through Congress could affect people across the insurance spectrum.

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On our Rx for Reform page, we've been looking at different scenarios in the health care debate -- an insured person, an underinsured person and others -- and asking health policy analysts to weigh in on how the House and Senate bills might impact them.

Read more about a small business owner, a woman just diagnosed with cancer and others in the ongoing series Profiles: Health Care Reform.

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