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By Julie Rovner, NPR News October 22, 2009 KFF Health News Original

While top members of the House and Senate are struggling to put together health care overhaul bills on Capitol Hill, elsewhere in Washington, patient advocates and other groups are trying to take apart some of the deals already cut with top health care industry groups.

Ten Years Later: Look To Nurses As Champions of Patient Safety

By Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly, WCVE December 10, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Ten years ago this month, IOM’s ‘To Err Is Human’ cast a spotlight on the role of the nurse in keeping patients safe, a role that will become even more important under the ongoing effort to reform the health care system.

Don’t Forget About The Other Determinants of Health

By Gail Wilensky November 12, 2009 KFF Health News Original

As we move to the endgame of what will at best be health care reform 1.0, it is also important to remember that if we want to improve health-presumably health care reform is a means to improving health-we need to focus on more than just health care and reform of the health care system.

Health Care Overhaul Rests On Senator Harry Reid

By David Welna, NPR News October 18, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Majority Leader Harry Reid has been the Democrats’ top man in the Senate for nearly five years. But his leadership skills are soon to be tested as he presides over merging the two very different health care overhaul bills. The task has prompted remarks like, “Is he Harry Reid or Harry Houdini?”

Baucus Doubts Public Option Can Get 60 Votes In Senate

By Eric Pianin October 19, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Although negotiators are considering various forms of a public option as they try to meld health overhaul bills approved by two Senate panels, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., says it’s unlikely the Senate would approve major legislation this year that includes a pure form of the controversial government-operated insurance program.

Insurance Industry Makes Its Case For A Public Option

By Igor Volsky October 15, 2009 KFF Health News Original

After months of publicly supporting health care reform, America’s Health Insurance Plans

Transcript: Health On The Hill – November 2, 2009

November 2, 2009 KFF Health News Original

House Democrats are expected to begin floor debate this week on their health care overhaul plan and House Republicans are expected to unveil an alternative measure.

Uninsured By Choice: A ‘Calculated Risk’

By Austin Jenkins, NPR News October 3, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Lyn Robinson owns Zenith Holland Gardens, a wholesale plant nursery. She chooses not to buy insurance and says she likes deciding where and when to spend her medical dollars. Part of our series “Are You Covered?” co-produced with NPR.

Not Enough Insurance And Swimming In Medical Bills

By Richard Knox, NPR News September 28, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Between the two of them, Martha Martin and her husband Jim work five part-time jobs, but still can’t afford health insurance. Last year, the Martins spent 45 percent of their $44,500 income on health insurance premiums and medical bills. Part of our series “Are You Covered?” co-produced with NPR.

HELP Committee Postpones Day Of Reckoning

By Mary Agnes Carey June 9, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Senate Democrats release health care bill leaving out–for the moment–two of the most contentious items, while promising more talks with Republicans. Meanwhile, in the House, chairmen of three committees brief fellow Democrats on the contours of their bill.

Senate Finance Committee To Vote Next Week, Baucus Praises CBO Cost Estimate

By Mary Agnes Carey October 8, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Senate Finance Committee health care legislation would cost $829 billion over the next decade according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released Wednesday.

Transcript: Health On The Hill – How Will Senate Committees Combine Health Bills?

October 5, 2009 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and Eric Pianin discuss what might happen in the Senate Finance Committee this week and how its health overhaul bill might be combined with the more liberal bill from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Dr. John Kitzhaber’s Unorthodox Ideas On Reforming Health Care

October 21, 2009 Page

As governor of Oregon, Dr. John Kitzhaber presided over a radical change in the state’s health care system. Critics said it rationed care while supporters said it expanded health services to poor people. Today, Kitzhaber, running for governor again, has new ideas on how to fix the country’s health care system.

On Their Own, Self-Employed Search For Health Care

By David Schaper, NPR News October 6, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Cindy Richards and her husband Scott Fisher at their home in Oak Park, Ill. Richards is a freelance writer and editor who buys health insurance to cover herself and her family.

End Of COBRA Subsidy Rattles Newly Unemployed

By Rick Schmitt October 28, 2009 KFF Health News Original

As part of the economic stimulus, the government offered subsidies so laid-off workers could keep their health insurance. For some, the subsidies are running out.

Medicare Experiments To Curb Costs Seldom Implemented on a Broad Scale

By Kate Steadman and Christopher Weaver November 3, 2009 KFF Health News Original

Successful demonstration projects are often derailed by objections from hospitals, doctors and other providers —

Lawmakers, White House Consider Bipartisan Route To Bend Health ‘Cost Curve’

By Eric Pianin October 27, 2009 KFF Health News Original

With growing signs that health reform bills would do little to “bend the cost curve,” Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D., want a bipartisan commission to control future Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security costs.

Ad Audit: Do The Insurers’ Claims Add Up?

October 16, 2009 Page

An insurance industry ad takes aim at the Senate Finance Committee bill, warning that many seniors will be required to pay “more than their fair share” for a health overhaul. But that argument turns on its head the real inequity in Medicare.

Bill Frist: Congress Will Approve a $1 Trillion Health Bill That Won’t “Bend The Cost Curve”

October 1, 2009 Page

KFF Health News’s Eric Pianin talks with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., about his new book, “A Heart to Serve, The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing.”

Will Insurers Balk At Weakening of Individual Insurance Mandate?

By Mary Agnes Carey October 2, 2009 KFF Health News Original

The Senate Finance Committee Thursday agreed to delay the penalties for people who don’t comply with a requirement to have health insurance. Some lawmakers want no penalties at all. But insurers worry that weakening the mandate will mean people will delay getting coverage, it would be more difficult to keep costs down.

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