Health Care Reform on the Fast Track

"Inside E Street" looks at the high cost and inaccessibility of health care. We talk with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and ask him about the progress that Congress is making to solve the growing problem. Will a health-care reform bill pass this year? What does the bill look like now and what effect would it have on Americans?

The Cost of Reform

In the second part of her exclusive interview with Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sheilah asks the tough question: how are we going to pay for health care reform.

Resources

• Learn about AARP's organizational commitment to Health Action Now for all Americans

• Read about AARP's goals for Health Care Reform

• Read about the President’s meeting with health care providers and industry groups.  At this meeting, the group pledged to reduce costs. 

• Watch the President’s address to a joint session of Congress, February 24, 2009, in which he declared, “Let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.”

The Host

Through most of her distinguished reporting career, Sheilah Kast has focused on the economy and workplace and how they affect people's lives. Well known to viewers of public television, ABC News, and CNN, she has covered the White House and Congress.

Kast also reported on the Washington aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Her stories included an investigation of anthrax in the mails and the struggles of bereaved Pentagon families to secure benefits.

At The Washington Star, in her first reporting job, Kast covered financial regulation, taxes, and energy. Her expertise in these important issues eventually led her to start a national public-television show, "This Week in Business," which she hosted in association with Business Week magazine.

Ms. Kast is a skilled interviewer. She has often hosted NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and has her own current-affairs interview show on public radio in Maryland.

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