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President Obama's news conference on July 22 is meant to be a foot on the accelerator of health-care reform, but all signs suggest that Capitol Hill is putting on the brakes. In the House, the Energy and Commerce Committee had expected to be finishing up its bill tonight; instead, the only one of the three health-related House committees that hasn't yet produced a bill has suspended its drafting sessions, while committee chairman Henry Waxman tries to work out his differences with a rebellious group of fiscally conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs...
...coverage for their workers? What will the bill do to bring down costs? Those are the kinds of questions lawmakers expect to be hearing from voters when they return home in August. And at this point, they still don't have many answers. (See 10 players in the health-care-reform debate...
...Meanwhile, what Congress has produced thus far is coming under increasing criticism - not just from Republicans but from credible, nonpartisan sources like the Congressional Budget Office and the Mayo Clinic, which Obama often cites as a model of what an efficient, high-quality health-care system would look like. While the bills that are on the table do a good job of expanding medical coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who now lack it, outside experts say, they fall short of meeting Obama's other main goal, which is to transform the health system in ways that bring...
...setting Medicare rates out of the hands of Congress and give it to an independent agency. Presumably, that agency would have more expertise and be less susceptible to political pressure. Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag has called such a move a "game changer" that could bring down health-care costs, though no one has a precise estimate of how much could be saved...
...They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs, but they didn't seem to care." - Sebastian D'Souza, who took the photographs of Qasab and other gunmen in the train station (the Independent...