Link: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/03/19/why-we-reform-1

One way or another, the fate of health care reform is going to be decided in the next few days. If House Democratic leaders find 216 votes, reform will almost immediately become the law of the land. If they don’t, reform may well be put off for many years — possibly a decade or more.

Link: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=33053469.story

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/03/20103181762775614.html

Barack Obama, the US president, has postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia in an attempt to push his historic healthcare reform bill through Congress.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/17/healthcare-reform-republicans-democrats

Republicans are in denial. They're desperate to convince Democrats that passing comprehensive healthcare reform legislation will be the worst possible move they could make.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62G2DO20100317

In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college, he had purchased his own health insurance. Shortly after his diagnosis, however, his insurance company, Fortis, revoked his policy. Mitchell was told that without further treatment his HIV would become full-blown AIDS within a year or two and he would most likely die within two years after that. So he hired an attorney -- not because he wanted to sue anyone; on the contrary, the shy African-American teenager expected his insurance was canceled by mistake and would be reinstated once he set the company straight.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7064697.ece

After 14 months and more than 60 speeches President Obama’s fight to win reforms of America’s health insurance system may have only four days to go. His fight to keep them on the statute books will then begin.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pitt-m16.shtml

Curtis Mitchell died February 7 in his home more than 30 hours after both he and his wife, Sharon Edge, made the first of repeated calls to emergency 911 requesting an ambulance be sent to their home in the Hazelwood section of the city of Pittsburgh.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/15/healthcare-reform-obama-congress

It's understandable that boredom and confusion are twin reactions to the continuing battle over healthcare reform. The process has been running for almost a year now. And in that time the debate has raged over "death panels", public options and trillion-dollar price tags. But all that is almost at an end.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/health/policy/16medicaid.html?ref=us

Carol Y. Vliet began chemotherapy to treat her cancer, but lost her doctor because he stopped seeing Medicaid patients. As she began a punishing regimen of chemotherapy and radiation, Mrs. Vliet found a measure of comfort in her monthly appointments with her primary care physician, Dr. Saed J. Sahouri, who had been monitoring her health for nearly two years.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7060024.ece

President Obama today delayed his visit to Asia, his first international trip of the year, to focus on his all-out push to salvage his embattled health reform legislation.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055645.ece

A naked Rahm Emanuel is accused of poking congressman Eric Massa in the chest because of his failure to support Mr Obama's health care bil. President Obama’s troubled and marathon effort to reform the US health industry took a bizarre twist yesterday after a Democratic congressman said he was lambasted over the issue by a naked White House chief of staff in a men’s locker room.

Link: http://www.citizensposse.com/

Insurance companies claim profits "shouldn't be focus", yet spend a million a day on ads to kill reform. The insurance industry is pushing their latest lie, claiming that only 1 cent of every dollar spent on health care goes to profits.

Link: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/palin-god-wrote-palm-hand/

Admits she used to 'hustle over the border' to 'get health care from Canada'. Sarah Palin has a message for critics of her crib-notes during February's Tea Party keynote speech: God did it too. At a fundraiser on Friday for the Ohio Right to Life group, Palin assailed the media for getting "all wigged out about that" and claimed they're attacking her because they "couldn't argue the content" of the words.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkPFIC1wrQ-L7QiPDPFt0IQLXVygD9EABRHG0

With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Barack Obama is taking his last-ditch push for health care reform on the road. In a speech Monday in Philadelphia, Obama will try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation's health care system, while also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a "final vote" for a massive reform bill in an election year.