Health Care Reform Leaves the Hill
On Capitol Hill and across the nation, the debate over the future of American health care rages on. It’s President Obama against the Republicans; the Blue Dogs versus the progressive Democrats. For a view from the Hill as well as the heartland, The Takeaway is joined by our Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich and public radio reporters Adam Allington of KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri, and Michael Puente of member station WBEZ in Chicago.
To hear some of the strong emotions surrounding the debate, watch the footage of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter at a health care town hall in Philadelphia yesterday:
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