News outlets provide a variety of fact checks on health care reform.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on four key issues - a public option, raising taxes and cutting costs, individual mandates and abortion - that may become points of major differences when expected debate begins Nov. 30 on the Senate bill. The Monitor examines how each issue is covered in both the House and the Senate bills (Chaddock, 11/24).
CBS News reports: "Add the Senate and House bills together and they are 4,064 pages worth of reforms that Democrats say will revolutionize the health care system and Republicans say will bankrupt it. No wonder many Americans have doubts. Citizens told us they think Congress is 'Rushing it through. They should give it more thought,' and, 'I don't think I want a public option because I don't think the government handles things too well.' Concerns run so deep, that the most recent CBS News poll shows only 40 percent of Americans approve of the proposed health care plans in Congress while 45 percent disapprove. Polls show one of their main concerns is the price tag: around $1 trillion over 10 years."