How to Use This Guide Foreword by Joanne Silberner, National Public Radio Even though official Washington has backed off on its plans to revamp the nation's health care system, private citizens are still interested.
Polls consistently rank health care reform as the second or third most important issue to voters.
And that makes sense. We all get sick, we're all going to die, and we all want a system in place that will take care of us. But even with the public's inborn interest, the task of keeping it informed is daunting. The challenge of reporting on health care is to put a face on it. So there's a bill being debated on Capitol Hill in Washington that would revamp Medicare.