First Edition: November 23, 2009

Today's headlines suggest that even after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wins Saturday night found the first key stem health bill, his measure is likely to issue an even more intense debate as the measure moves forward.
Congress Targets Senior Abuse
KHN Staff writer Rick Schmitt writes about elder abuse. "When it comes to political, social or health reasons, elder abuse has not had the star power of some other movements that focus on the rights of vulnerable people. ... The lack of glitter is reflected over the years in federal aid for the protection of seniors - - and that is to say, support is limited. It may be about to change. As part of health care overhaul legislation, the legislators take steps that would for the first time a federal beachhead in the fight against elder abuse "(Kaiser Health News).
Kaiser Health News tracked weekend news developments and provide summaries of key events, including Saturday's Senate vote and comments made during the Sunday morning news programs.
Reaction To Senate Vote Offers Healthcare a Sample of 2010 campaigns with the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed with the debate after Thanksgiving, on a medical bill that the president is to find the year's end, the debate of the 2010 elections, midterm is joined (los Angeles Times).
How Health Care Reform Will Fall Apart Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eked out of 60 votes on a procedural motion to begin the health care debate Saturday night - but there is no guarantee he can pass a bill on the merits (Politico).
Health foliage and heated
Democratic leaders finally moved their stock of health bill to the Senate floor, where wheeling and dealing over large unresolved and divisive issues likely to shape the legislation before its next big test (The Wall Street Journal).
Senate Votes To Move Forward Health Debate
Democrats and independents closed ranks Saturday and voted to move forward with the debate over the landmark legislation that would overhaul the nation's health system and expand health insurance to 31 million Americans (The Wall Street Journal).
Senate Healthcare Reform Vote, "Now, Will The Debates Begin 'With no Republican votes - and there are no votes to spare - Senate Democrats open debate on the historic overhaul of how the U.S. health system delivers services and how Americans pay for their ( The Christian Science Monitor).
Local Option On Center Of Debate Democrats had little time for their weekend Senate health care to taste victory as two of the legislators who voted to move the debate forward Saturday night, Sunday indicated they will vote to pass the package as a includes government-run insurance program (The Washington Post).
Senatore Voice Optimism on Public Option by their weekend win Buoyed on a vote early healthcare debate, several Senate Democrats expressed optimism yesterday they could not find a way to keep a government-run insurance plan in the vast bill (The Boston Globe).
Centrist Senators Say They Oppose Health Care Bill
The morning after the vote to commence debate on ground-breaking health care legislation, two centrist senators, Ben Nelson, and Joseph I. Lieberman, said Sunday that they were opposed to the bill as currently written, especially the inclusion of a new government-run insurance program (The New York Times).
For Healthcare Holdout, It's Lonely In The Middle As one of the few senators are undecided on reform of healthcare, Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln a giant headache faces. Liberals attack her as an obstructionist, even though they have a significant record keeping alive the effort poured. Republicans are lining to run against her - seven, so far, and now. (Los Angeles Times).
Healthcare Companies Fight Swells Lobbying groups and lobbying firms on hiring and health issues almost doubled this year as special interests rushed to shape the massive blow to the country's healthcare system is now in its final stretch before the Congress (USA Today).
Policy, investor portfolios and the legislature when Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) this summer proposed a $ 4 billion tax on medical device companies to help offset the cost of health care reform, an unusual mixture of legislators in a choir joined in protest (The Washington Post).
Daschle: Health Care Overhaul "Within Our Reach" Senate Democrats may have a procedure has achieved victory Saturday night, but the real battle is set to start after Thanksgiving, when the debate over health care legislation will begin (NPR).
Gaps For consumers in the Democratic Health Care Bill For consumers, the health care bills taking final shape in Congress do not rate close to a perfect 10 (Associated Press).
Print On Land's House Democrats Back To Overhaul Health Care Union-backed groups pressuring a handful of renegade House Democrats from New York and New Jersey the party's efforts to overhaul the health care system (The New York Times) back.
Raging fierce debate about New Cancer Test Guidelines president Obama's vision for making health care in America more efficient and effective clashed for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the country's health care system (The Washington Post).
Mammogram Guidelines Spark Debate Over Health Bill legislators broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief encouraged women to ignore the directives of the delay the start of breast cancer screenings (Associated Press).