Sep 23 Democrats Revolt Over $80 Billion Pharmaceutical Deal Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus faced the first major fight over his health care legislation Tuesday, as fellow Democrats challenged the $80 billion deal that he and the White House struck with drug makers to help pay for health… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch Struggling to Find Affordable Health Insurance An excerpt from a PBS special on one family's struggle to obtain affordable health care. Continue watching
Sep 22 Baucus Aims to Increase Affordability in Senate Health Care Plan After nearly a week of criticism from fellow Democrats, Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus unveiled changes to his proposed health reform plan aimed at making insurance more affordable for lower- and middle-income workers. Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch Senate Debate on Health Reform Hinges on Affordability As the Senate Finance Committee opens debate on the so-called Baucus plan for health care reform, the issue of affordability remains a key sticking point. After a recap of Tuesday's hearing on the bill, Susan Dentzer of the journal Health… Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch Tax Feud Emerges Over Health Insurance Mandates A key feature within health care proposals emerging from Congress and the White House is a mandate for all Americans to purchase insurance. But is a mandate a tax? Two experts discuss the topic with Gwen Ifill. Continue watching
Sep 18 Consumer-driven Health Care Advocate Proposes Scrapping Insurance Model The NewsHour's series of health care reform conversations continues with an online-only conversation with David Goldhill, author of the recent article "How American Health Care Killed My Father."… Continue reading
Sep 18 WHO: H1N1 Vaccine Production Falling Short The World Health Organization warned Friday that global production of vaccine for the H1N1 flu strain over the next year will fall short of the 4.9 billion doses previously forecast. Continue reading
Sep 17 Obama Aims to Rally Young Adults for Health Care Reform President Obama made his case for health care reform to a cheering crowd of students and others at the University of Maryland Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch In Tanzania, New Push To Combat Malaria Between 60,000 and 80,000 Tanzanians die from malaria each year. In the last installment in his series of reports from Tanzania, Ray Suarez looks at a mult-million-dollar effort to slow the spread of the disease through the distribution of bed… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch For Young Americans, Health Insurance is Often Elusive President Obama took his health reform call to young people Thursday with a speech at the University of Maryland. Kwame Holman reports on the challenges faced by the more than 10 million Americans between the ages of 19 and 26… Continue watching