Lobbyists keeping the drive for health care reform alive

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by American Medical Association President J. James Rohack, speaks about health care in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama: Now is the time for health-care reform

Obama challenges critics on health care

Gwen LeBlanc, left, and Beverly Baudoin, center, argue with Audrey George about her sign during a rally against government-run health care Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009 in Houma, La. LeBlanc and Baudoin disagreed with George's sign that said the government ignored health care the past eight years. (AP Photo/The Houma Courier, Matt Stamey)

Rural Americans skeptical of plans for health care reform

In this photograph taken in Walsenberg, Colo., on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, retired Doctor David Zehring talks about rural healthcare during an interview. "If I'm a young physician, I want most of my patients to have insurance, maybe some of them on Medicare. I'm not even touching the Medicaid," said Dr. David Zehring of La Veta, Colo., a retired plastic surgeon who practiced in Seattle and retired to Huerfano County. Zehring made a career in city practice but now volunteers on a hospital board in Huerfano. He says he's just now learning about the disparities between urban and rural health care access and delivery. "I'm becoming increasingly worried," Zehring said. "And I don't know that Congress is going to get it done _ not before the August recess, maybe not this year, maybe not in Barack Obama's presidency. I just don't see it." (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Emotion, few details, in Obama’s health care pitch

President Barack Obama hugs Debby Smith, 53, from Appalachia, Va., after she asks him about her health care during a town hall meeting at the Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., Wednesday, July 1, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Disputes put health care timetable in doubt

Vice President Joe Biden speaks about a White House deal with hospitals to help pay for President Barack Obama's overhaul of health care, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. At left, is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Obama: Health care reform essential to stability

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., right, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., back right, join other Democratic leaders in a news conference, announcing the introduction of health care legislation on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 14, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jam-packed crowds press senators on health care

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, answers a question from Sheryl Prather during a town meeting on health care reform Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)

GOP unmoved as Obama renews health care push

Supporters of Britain's National Health Service hold a banner reading 'Go for it America our National Health Service is a blessing for all' in a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in London, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. The demonstration is intended to send a message to the citizens of U.S. where President Barack Obama is trying to introduce a government run national health plan but the plan's opponents have been vociferous claiming the British National Health Service does not work. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Threats, jeers saturate angry health care debate

FILE - This Aug. 11, 2009 file photo shows a vandalized sign outside the office of Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., in Smyrna, Ga. In this season of searing political heat, these incidents have raised divisive questions of their own. Are they simply the latest twists in a long tradition of vigorous, undeferential public engagement or evidence of some new, alarming brand of political virulence? (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Senate negotiator promises health care bill 'soon’

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. talks to reporter outside the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)

Pelosi worried about angry health care rhetoric

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Dems clear way for vote on health care overhaul

President Barack Obama listens to a question during a town hall meeting on health care in a Kroger supermarket in Bristol, Va., Wednesday, July 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Analysis: Obama missteps confuse health overhaul

Cancer survivor Catherine Howard, right, looks on as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on health care reform, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama rallies support for struggling health revamp

President Barack Obama responds to questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Obama rallies support for struggling health revamp

President Barack Obama responds to questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Baucus outlines health plan without GOP support

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. gestures during his news conference on health care legislation, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Dems say health care bill to pass this year

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Utah Health Exchange launches amid reform questions

Whitney Hunsaker works on her client, Angela Kroneberger's, hair at Remedez Hair Spa Wednesday, August 19, 2009 in University Mall in Orem. The owner of the salon, Cynthia Gamble, is looking into the health exchange as an alternative to the private insurance that she offers her 41 employees. ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald

Obama: Don’t squander chance to reform health care

FILE -- In this July 16, 2009 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. questions Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Capitol Hill in Washington. In speaking about the president's health care overhaul Kyl said, "The president and some Democrats insist we must rush this plan through, Why? Because the more Americans know about it, the more they oppose it. Something this important needs to be done right, rather than done quickly." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)