health care reform

From health care reform to "don't ask, don't tell," the 111th Congress got a lot done -- it's been the most productive session since the 1960s.

But how much of that legislation will survive the new Congress?

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Rolling back health care reform was a common theme in Republican campaigns. Renee Montagne reports on the views of a few voters who are on both sides of the issue.

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A Washington state man has been charged with threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Patty Murray over her support for health care reform.

His arrest comes amid a rash of ugliness aimed at lawmakers who supported the sweeping federal legislation.

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This week saw an unprecedented day-long summit on health care reform as well as an abject apology from Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda.

Host Scott Simon reviews the week in the news with NPR Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr.

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The lawyer for one of four men charged with trying to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's phones said the men were trying to record footage of her staff ignoring calls critical of her stance on health care reform.

Attorney J. Garrison Jordan denied the men were trying to disable or wiretap the phones in her office.

Writing in the New York Review of Books, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and retired M.D.

Arnold Relman says President Obama's health care plan won't work. Relman outlines the changes he thinks are necessary for success but missing in the plan.

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Health care reform officially began in Washington this week, and lawmakers have been hashing out the painful trade-offs of a bipartisan plan.

Guest host Paul Raeburn talks with experts about the economic and medical realities of improving care and coverage at lower costs.

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Scott Simon speaks with Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans about health care reform.

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The Virginia Organizing Project is working to mobilize people to lobby for more affordable health care. Health care reform is on President Obama's priority list, but one organizer says it's not just who's in the White House that matters, it's people raising "the level of fuss."

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