As the intense debate continues over new cancer test guidelines, the Obama administration is trying to protect health care reform from the controversy's fallout. The Washington Post reports: "President Obama's vision for making health care in America more effective and efficient collided for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the nation's health-care system. As the Senate moved toward its first floor vote on the health-care reform bill, two independent expert groups coincidentally released new guidelines for mammograms and Pap tests aimed at improving treatment for two forms of cancer in women. ... Although neither set of recommendations was aimed at cutting costs, both were based on the kind of objective analysis of scientific research that the Obama administration has embraced in its bid to make care better and more economical" (Stein, 11/22).