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Tracking The Overhaul

Health Overhaul Moves One Step Forward, One Back

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved its version of a health care measure Friday, clearing the way for a full House vote in September. Compromise, however, is proving elusive for a small negotiating group of three Democrats and three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee.

Health Overhaul Moves One Step Forward, One Back

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Children's Health

Will Swine Flu Follow Campers To School?

Scores of children have been sent home from summer camps across the nation this summer with flulike symptoms. The outbreaks have raised concerns about what schools may face this fall.

Will Swine Flu Follow Campers To School?

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Health Officials Brace For Fall Flu Season

Experts met this week to decide who should receive the first available swine flu shots this fall. Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist Dr. Arthur Reingold discuss public health preparations.

Health Officials Brace For Fall Flu Season

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Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals

Luis Jimenez in 2003, after being deported from Florida's Martin Memorial Medical Center to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Rodrigo Abd/AP hide caption

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National

Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals

A Florida jury recently decided that a hospital acted "reasonably" when it deported a patient who was an illegal immigrant to Guatemala. Some experts think the case could make hospitals warier in the future about treating undocumented patients.

Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals

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Health Care Costs Measured In Cupcakes

Jody Hall, the owner of Cupcake Royale in Seattle, is struggling to pay for escalating health insurance premiums for her employees. She supports a proposal to create an insurance plan offered by the federal government. Courtesy of Cupcake Royale hide caption

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Current System

Health Care Costs Measured In Cupcakes

Health care costs are killing small businesses, which pay substantially more in premiums than large firms do. The owner of a cupcake business in Seattle pays as much in health insurance for her employees as she does in rent for four choice Seattle storefronts.

Health Care Costs Measured In Cupcakes

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Thursday

Tracking The Overhaul

Taxing 'Cadillac' Health Plans Has Widespread Effects

One funding option before Congress is to tax expensive health insurance plans. But it's not as simple as taxing the rich to help the poor. Many other Americans benefit from such plans, from union workers to big city residents to those employed by small businesses.

Taxing 'Cadillac' Health Plans Has Widespread Effects

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Global Health

The International Organ Trafficking Market

With tens of thousands of Americans on a waiting list for donations, there is a thriving international black market for organs. Lindy Washburn, senior writer at The Record, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, director of Organs Watch, explain the exchange of money for human organs.

The International Organ Trafficking Market

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Tracking The Overhaul

Pharma Industry Keeps Hand In Health Care Bill

One of the groups key to passing health care legislation is the pharmaceutical industry, which has been quite active behind the scenes. Billy Tauzin, president and CEO of PhRMA, the biggest trade association for the prescription drug industry, says health care is a moral imperative.

Pharma Industry Keeps Hand In Health Care Bill

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Wednesday

CDC To Urge Swine Flu Vaccine For Pregnant Women

CDC advisers want pregnant women and their doctors now more than ever to heed guidelines to get vaccinated. A new study of the first two months of the swine flu outbreak shows that if infected, pregnant women are more likely to get severe flu.

CDC To Urge Swine Flu Vaccine For Pregnant Women

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NPR Poll Finds Tough Sledding For Obama

President Obama speaks during a town hall meeting on health care in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on Thursday. Findings from a recent NPR poll indicate that about half of Americans are now onboard with Obama's health care plan. Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP hide caption

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Politics

NPR Poll Finds Tough Sledding For Obama

President Obama has hit a rough patch, squeezed between a lingering recession and rising questions about his health care overhaul, the latest NPR poll finds. A plurality of voters polled opposed the health care plan now moving through Congress.

NPR Poll Finds Tough Sledding For Obama

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Tuesday

Money And Influence

Health Care Fight Spotlights Community Organizers

The Virginia Organizing Project is one of many community organizing groups that hoped to have more clout after the election of President Obama, a former organizer. And VOP has now found itself swept up in the biggest organizing effort of the year.

Health Care Fight Spotlights Community Organizers

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What Works

Harlem Children's Zone Breaks Poverty Pattern

Many inner-city kids are born into poverty, perform poorly in school, and drop out or do time. In the second "What Works," Harlem Children's Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada shares his solution. The HCZ shepherds kids from birth to college, changing their lives for the better.

Harlem Children's Zone Breaks Poverty Pattern

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