Oct 08 Watch Health Reform Vote Set for Senate Finance Committee The Senate Finance Committee will vote next week on revamping the nation's health care system. Kwame Holman reports. Continue watching
Oct 07 CBO Says Health Bill Would Cost $829 Billion By Lea Winerman The Senate Finance Committee's health care reform plan would cost $829 billion over 10 years, but would meet President Barack Obama's goal of reducing the federal budget deficit by 2019, according to a cost estimate released Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch What the U.S. Can Learn From Health Care Abroad Gwen Ifill speaks with health experts about what the United States can learn from health care systems throughout the world. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Netherlands Health System Balances Cost With Quality In the last of a series on health care in the Netherlands, Ray Suarez reports on how the European country maintains low health care costs while delivering a high standard of care. Continue watching
Oct 06 Comparing International Health Care Systems By PBS News Hour Ray Suarez and a NewsHour reporting team traveled to the Netherlands in September to explore the country's innovative universal health care system, which has gained attention as a potential model for U.S. health care reform. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch In Netherlands, Insurers Compete Over Quality of Care In the first of a series on health care abroad, Ray Suarez looks at how the Netherlands achieved a massive health care overhaul four years ago. Continue watching
Oct 05 Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to American Trio Three Americans were named the 2009 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Monday for their work identifying a key growth enzyme that has important implications for research on aging, and for diseases like cancer. Continue reading
Oct 05 Under Senate Finance Committee Plan, High-Risk Insurance Pools Get Funding Boost Until recently, self-employed writer Candace Talmadge, of Lancaster, Texas, was pleased with the health insurance she purchased through a small business association. Continue reading
Oct 05 Obama Pitches Health Reform to Doctors By Lea Winerman President Obama made his latest pitch for health care reform Monday in a White House Rose Garden speech to 150 white-coat-wearing doctors from around the country. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Among Doctors, Many Opinions on Health Care Reform While President Obama worked to rally doctors around health care reform Monday, fault lines have nevertheless emerged among physicians on topics such as the public option, the role of insurance companies, and the say of patients. A pair of doctors… Continue watching