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Tough choices on abortion coverage
Millions of American women will face tough choices about abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law, both sides in the abortion debate agree. FULL STORY
  Making sense of health care reform
How would the House abortion limits work?
Breaking down the health care proposals
No health coverage tied to 45,000 deaths a year
Newsweek: 5 biggest myths of health care reform
What's behind the out-of-control costs?
  Politics
Advice for Obama: Knock heads on health care
Rough road ahead for health care in Senate
Majority leader: House will pass health bill
Reid signals timetable for health care may slip
Estimate: Public health option would cover few
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  Commentary
Fineman: Obama channels Ali in health fight
Newsweek: Understanding the Baucus health plan
Opinion: Big hole in the health care debate
Newsweek: 5 ways Obama scored in his speech
Analysis: Obama gambles on making nice
  Patient care
Q&A on health care co-ops
Doctors see benefit in end-of-life controversy
What the House bill says on end-of-life care
2 in 3 had recent test with radiation, study says
VA investigates errant notices of fatal disease
  Drugs and treatments
Prevention may save lives, but not money
More may not be better in health care
Medicare drug premiums to edge up in 2010
Lax hospitals may be fostering kidney-selling
  Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare drug premiums to edge up in 2010
Medicaid falls short just as some need it most
Seniors see savings in Medicare drug plan
Health overhaul means big Medicare changes
Proposed Medicare cuts prompt grumbles
  Latest health reform headlines
Health care videos
For patients, art is therapy
Nov. 14: A Texas hospital has developed a creative way to help lift patients’ spirits, and unlock their potential. KXAS reporter Lindsay Wilcox has the story.
Hundreds line up at New Orleans free clinic
RNC opts out of abortion coverage after 18 years
Filling the gap in U.S. health care
Insurance companies lobby against reform
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Medicare spending by region
Dartmouth's atlas of health care costs demonstrates a vexing issue facing policymakers: Medicare spends vastly different amounts to care for its enrollees depending on where they live.
  A glossary of health care debate terms
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'Bend the health care cost curve'
Capitation
CBO scoring
CHIP
COBRA
Comparative effectiveness
Co-op plan
'Crowd out'
Deficit neutral
Fee-for-service spending
Health care rationing
Health IT
Health insurance exchange
Individual mandate
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicare buy-in
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Out-of-pocket payments
Pay-or-play requirement
Public option
Reconciliation
Sin taxes
Single-payer plan
Sustainable growth rate
Tax break for employer-provided insurance
'Trigger' for public option
TRICARE
Uncompensated care

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Sebelius And Jackson Hold News Conference On Public Health Issue
Who's who in the health care debate
A look at the key players shaping the national debate over health care — including the legislators and policymakers at the center of it all.
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Newsvine - Health - Have your say
Have your say on health care reform
Join the Newsvine discussion on overhauling health care.
Slide show
Perspectives on health care
A Daryl Cagle editorial cartoon roundup on the state of the U.S. health system.

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Timeline: Health care highs and lows
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, a look at coverage through the years.

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