Aug 03 Watch Lawmakers Weighing Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Health Plans As Congress continues searching for ways to finance a health care overhaul, one option under review is taxing the costliest employer-provided health plans, otherwise known as "Cadillac" plans. After a recap on developments on the health care front, experts discuss… Continue watching
Jul 31 Reform Plans Face Uncertainty in August Recess With lawmakers heading into a monthlong recess, Democrats advanced health reform legislation in a key congressional panel Friday, but the debate over the Obama administration's top policy goal looked ready to move outside Washington. Continue reading
Jul 30 Confronting Malaria and Drug Resistance on the Thai-Cambodia Border OCHRAB, Cambodia | In this reporter's notebook, NewsHour correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro writes about tracking the growing resistance to the malaria drug artemisinin in western Cambodia. Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch Despite Breakthrough in Congress, Wrangling Persists Over Health Reform With Congress showing some progress Wednesday in the health care reform debate, journalists discuss the political hurdles that must be cleared to reach a final deal. Continue watching
Jul 29 Q&A: New Flu Vaccine Recommendations for Children The Center for Disease Control released recommendations last week that seasonal flu vaccines be given to all children and adolescents between 6 months and 18 years. Continue reading
Jul 29 Pregnant Women, Children Top H1N1 Vaccination Priority List The Centers for Disease Control's advisory committee on immunization met Wednesday in an emergency session to set priorities for who should receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine now in development. Continue reading
Jul 29 House Blue Dogs Reach Health Reform Deal, Senate Committee Nears Agreement By Lea Winerman Blue Dog Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have reached a deal with House Democratic leadership that will allow the committee to resume its stalled markup of a health care reform bill Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch Amid Health Reform Debate, Prospects for Public Plan Explored As House Democrats try to round up votes for a health reform plan and a bipartisan group works on a Senate compromise, two bloggers size up the prospects for a public health insurance plan. Continue watching
Jul 28 Health Care Wrangling Picks Up Speed By Lea Winerman Negotiations over health-care reform continued on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as President Barack Obama once again made his case for reform to the public, this time in a forum with the AARP. Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch High Obesity Rates Stress U.S. Health Care Budgets A new study finds that obesity rates grew 37 percent from 1998 to 2008 and account for 10 percent of the nation's health care spending. The author of the report speaks with Gwen Ifill about health concerns in the U.S. Continue watching