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Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His new book, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism," will be published this fall by Basic Books. Zelizer writes widely about current events.

Julian E. Zelizer says it's vital that new media provide support for journalism that strives for objectivity.

(CNN) -- Last week, Sen. John Kerry convened a discussion of the troubled state of journalism in America by way of a hearing by the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.

In Kerry's home state of Massachusetts, the Boston Globe is barely surviving. Several major metro papers have closed down, and there are indications that many more could soon follow. Experts have been warning in recent months that much of the newspaper industry may not survive.

While the end of the metro newspaper would constitute a huge blow to journalism and the political system, realistically there might be nothing that we can do. The popularity of news on the Web and the potential of mobile devices such as the Kindle makes it difficult to see how we can sustain news in print -- unless electronic delivery can produce enough revenue to support the cost of newspaper staffs.

Sometimes technological innovations and consumer preferences cause changes that are irreversible. The industry has seen other important shifts in the way that Americans receive their news, such as the advent of television news in the 1950s and 1960s.

But the real issue is not whether we can save the newspapers, but how we can create the best Internet news system possible. As Kerry said in his opening statement: "There also is the important question of whether online journalism will sustain the values of professional journalism, the way the newspaper industry has."

The first challenge we must address has to do with editorial control. A great danger of blog-based news is that information disseminates instantly with very little editorial supervision. On too many sites, information goes right from writer to reader.

In the heyday of daily newspapers and network news, the news cycle was slow, lasting over the course of a day. There was a considerable amount of time for reporters, editors, and producers to check and verify information before it reached the public eye. Those days are gone. The result is too often that incorrect information circulates quickly.

It will be crucial that television news networks continue to maintain Web sites which have the financial capital to support an editorial and production staff and that the newspapers which do survive find ways to expand their online operations, turning them into commercially lucrative ventures. Only they can finance the kind of infrastructure that good journalism requires.

The second challenge we face has to do with polarization. Most studies of politics show that polarization has increased significantly throughout American politics. The media are both a product and cause of this political phenomenon. In Congress, there are fewer centrists in either party who are willing to compromise.

Unfortunately, we have seen a similar phenomenon in the news business. During the 1990s, FOX News promoted a style of journalism framed within a clear conservative perspective. In recent years, liberals have mimicked these efforts. The nightly broadcasts of MSNBC have offered a counterpoint on the left, with television shows offering news from a liberal perspective.

Bloggers on the Web follow this model as well. Not believing that the norm of objectivity is attainable, they prefer to present their political views openly and tend to be much more partisan in how they interpret world events. Moreover, readers and viewers tend to go for their information to sites and channels where they can see their own perspectives confirmed.

It will be difficult to counteract these kinds of trends since they are so deep-rooted in American politics. But at a minimum, someone needs to fund reporters who keep covering the story and who at least strive to achieve as much objectivity as possible. There are many Web sites that do undertake this mission, but it will be essential that there is continued and expanded support for reporting as the metro newspapers slowly vanish.

The final challenge has to do with fragmentation of news outlets. One of the great advantages of the Internet is that it has broken the monopoly the networks and major newspapers maintained on reporting the news. But the cost of fragmentation is that there are so many competing sites, some run by lone individuals and others by organizations, that Americans have fewer sources that can expose them to a diverse range of stories and that can make clear the interconnections between events that are taking place.

When you read the newspaper, it is possible to get a rounded picture of the world by flipping through the international news, national news, arts, business, sports, and more. Now, many sites focus on narrow subject matter. How can we bring the pieces together? The multiplicity of sources on the Web forces the reader to be his own editor, and not many people are inclined to do all the work of scanning a variety of the relevant sites to get a full picture.

All of these are challenges to journalism, but we should not lose hope in the potential of the Internet to provide high-quality news. The Internet offers many advantages. The speed can be an asset as readers learn of breaking stories more quickly. Editors have less power to stifle stories because of political or economic pressure. With so many more outlets, somehow the news will get out.

Hyperlinked stories can offer readers easy connections to related information and even to original documents through which they can draw their own conclusions about what reporters are saying. The Internet offers room for many more perspectives than existed when just three network anchors and the local newspaper told Americans what was happening.

The Internet can also combine written news with video and audio sources, as well as disseminate stories through social networking sites. Readers have the opportunities to interact with reporters and comment on stories.

The death of the metro newspaper would be a huge loss. But rather than only focusing on lament, our best response would be to make the new medium of Internet news as strong as it can possibly be.

We must address the major challenges by developing sites with the resources to edit, insisting on venues where the pursuit of objectivity remains a goal, and cultivating sites that help bring together different subject matter. If we do, the technological transition that we are living through can turn into a positive moment of advance for the media rather than a moment of decline.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer.

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question: What did Sen. John Kerry hold a hearing on?

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question: What did Zelizser say about newspapers?

answer: it's vital that new media provide support for journalism that strives for objectivity.

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question: What does john kerry say?

answer: "There also is the important question of whether online journalism will sustain the values of professional journalism, the way the newspaper industry has."

text: "There also is the important question of whether online journalism will sustain the values of professional journalism, the way the newspaper industry has."

question: What does Zelizer say?

answer: it's vital that new media provide support for journalism that strives for objectivity.

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question: What should focus be on?

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- When Patricia Cornwell began writing thriller novels, she ruled the world of forensic science.

"I'm very interested in what motivates people, why they do what they do, how they do it," Patricia Cornwell said.

"I could treat readers in each book to some new aspect that they wouldn't be familiar with," Cornwell said.

Now the author is bombarded with "CSI"-like information from every side -- from "Bones" to "Forensic Files" to, well, "CSI."

"It's like you create this monster and find out it's living in the house with you, and it's banished you to a room because it has more power than you," she said.

Cornwell knew she had to adapt to the changing entertainment climate. "One of the questions I really did ask myself was, 'What's the one thing I have no one else does?' "

The answer was chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell's heroine. Scarpetta is independent, feisty and someone Cornwell knows better than she knows herself. To honor that close relationship, Cornwell decided to name her 16th book in the series after its main character, titling it simply "Scarpetta."

"I realized, here it is 2008. I finished my first book 20 years ago in 1988. This is a really big anniversary," Cornwell said.

In the novel, Scarpetta leaves South Carolina for New York, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured psychiatric patient. The patient has a graphic tale to tell -- one of paranoia and murder.

The novelist said her books all have two things in common: First, of course, is a plot twist that allows Scarpetta to make a Sherlock Holmes-like deduction.

The second is intriguing character interaction.

"What's going on with them in this book? What are they doing with or to each other? Who's in love? Who isn't? Who's on the outs with whom? Because I hope, in the end, [my books] are like high-level, crime soap operas."

With two decades of character history, Cornwell has a lot to work with in that area. But her books are also full of intellectual fodder. Scarpetta is a disciplined academic -- a scientist with a law degree.

Cornwell spent six years working in a medical examiner's office before writing her first book, and she continues to spend time with professionals to keep up on new forensic technology.

In recent weeks she has researched an autopsy in Florida and worked with the National Forensic Academy. If she's going to write about trace evidence, she believes, she's going to go to a trace evidence lab.

"I was never a scientific person," Cornwell said. "When I got interested in science I had to learn it after the fact... and that was good because I had already learned how to describe things, how to ask questions the audience would want answered. I was much better able to translate things into a language someone else could grasp."

Her dedication to understanding her subject translates into other areas as well. Cornwell became a helicopter pilot, a certified scuba diver and qualified for a motorcycle license, all because she was writing about characters who were doing those things.

Fans appreciate Cornwell's enthusiasm and writing style, pushing 12 of her novels onto USA Today's best-seller lists.

But Cornwell said "Scarpetta" is actually more uplifting than her last couple of books, which took on a more twisted aura. "I'm glad because I think we live in very dark times and no one wants to read a depressing book now."

Still, Cornwell has been delving deeper into her characters' minds with each new book, and "Scarpetta" won't alter that trend.

"I'm very interested in what motivates people, why they do what they do, how they do it," she said. "It probably has something to do with where I am in life. I'm 52 years old and I think differently than I did at 42."

Fans have asked if this is Cornwell's last book in the series -- noting that the title "Scarpetta" is very ominous-sounding. But she promises to keep writing as long as the characters let her.

"It's certainly not by intention to be the last book," she said. "I wanted to make this a very special book. I decided that early in the writing process. I wanted to make it longer, a richer book, a feast for the fans. So no, this isn't the last book about Scarpetta."

Which sounds, well, ominous. Kay Scarpetta, watch out.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Another person has been added to the list of suspects in the January killing of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel, bringing the number of identified suspects to 27, two sources told CNN on Monday.

Twenty-six of the 27 were carrying European and Australian passports, authorities have said. The sources, an official familiar with the investigation and a police source, did not say which nation issued the passport the suspect used.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing, was found dead January 20 in his Dubai hotel room. Police believe he was slain the night before, allegedly by the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad.

Earlier Monday, sources in Dubai said two of the suspects ultimately entered the United States after al-Mabhouh's death, confirming a story originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. But a national security source in the United States cast doubt on that report.

Federal authorities ran the two names -- Roy Allen Cannon and Evan Dennings -- through databases and found no indication that anyone with those names or using those names entered the United States after the Dubai killing, the U.S. source said.

The Dubai sources said the suspect identified as Dennings, carrying an Irish passport, went to Zurich, Switzerland, immediately after the slaying, then entered the United States on January 21. The suspect identified as Cannon entered the United States on a British passport on February 14, the sources said.

Both should have been required to provide fingerprints and a picture upon arrival in America, the sources said.

On Sunday, Dubai's police chief said he is "100 percent sure" that the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad is behind al-Mabhouh's death.

"The Mossad needs to be ashamed of its actions," said Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim. "They sent 26, 27 persons to assassinate one man who was involved in the capturing and killing of two Israeli soldiers."

Hamas has said al-Mabhouh was behind the 1989 deaths.

Israel has a stated policy on security matters of neither confirming nor denying involvement. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, however, told Israel Army Radio earlier this month, "There is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there."

Lieberman has also said only "media reports" link Israel to the slaying.

Asked about the case Saturday by CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak repeatedly declined to comment.

Earlier Sunday, police said toxicology results showed that al-Mabhouh was injected with succinylcholine, a drug used to relax muscles during surgery or as an anesthetic, before he was suffocated. Signs indicated that al-Mabhouh resisted as he was being suffocated, police said.

Family members were told earlier that police had found blood on a pillow. Authorities have also said the killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medication next to him in an apparent effort to make the death appear natural.

But "the medication left next to him in the room has nothing to do with the killing," Tamim said Sunday.

However, authorities have recovered evidence including DNA, he said. "The DNA evidence is quite important and will help us with the investigation."

The 27 suspects are believed to have acquired false passports to travel to Dubai for the killing, then scattered to several far-flung locations afterward.

Tamim said Sunday not all the suspects have fraudulent passports -- "We know some of the names are real."

The total of 27 does not include two Palestinians previously arrested in Jordan and returned to Dubai. Tamim said one is not believed to be directly involved in al-Mabhouh's death, but "he is wanted by one of the Palestinian factions in the Palestinian territories and he is sentenced to death and that's why we will extradite him." He declined to discuss anything about the other Palestinian.

Twelve of the suspects used British passports, police said. Six suspects used Irish passports, four used French passports, three used Australian and one used a German passport.

Also Monday, the sources said the UAE central bank is working with other nations to track funding and 14 credit cards -- issued mostly by a United States bank -- used by the suspects in different places, including the United States.

CNN's Caroline Faraj and Saad Abedine contributed to this report.

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YUSUFIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- Female suicide bombers, who often slip through security checkpoints untouched because of cultural norms, are taking a more deadly toll than ever across Iraq.

A female suicide bomber struck northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 16.

But the U.S. Army has created a solution with "Daughters of Iraq," a program that trains Iraqi women to find female suicide bombers.

Women carried out eight bombings in all of 2007, according to the U.S. military. Halfway through 2008, the number of female suicide bombers is 20. A suicide attack carried out by a woman on Sunday in Baquba killed at least 16 people and wounded another 40.

"Daughters of Iraq" is a spinoff of "Sons of Iraq," which employs Iraqi men to run checkpoints and is credited with taking much of the steam out of the insurgency.

The goal of the women's program is twofold: to protect against female suicide bombers, and to provide much-needed income to Iraqi women with few chances for employment.

In the town of Yusufiya, southwest of Baghdad, some 30 women are being trained to search other females at security checkpoints -- something men are forbidden to do under Iraqi cultural norms.

In mid-May, a female suicide bomber killed an Iraqi army officer in this town.

"When he came out to meet her to help her with a problem she was having, she detonated the vest and killed him and injured some of his soldiers," said Michael Starz, a U.S. Army captain.

The women will work two or three days a month, making up to $300, an Iraqi military officer explained to applicants. In a community, where families struggle to survive, that's good money.  Watch how "Daughters of Iraq" works Â»

The women come from small farming communities. Many of them are widows with numerous children and almost no income.

Such is the story of Fawzia, who has six children to support. Her husband was shot to death when his car broke down.

"I am ready (to work) as long as it helps me financially," she said. "I have five children in school."

Having women work in this tradition-bound society is a social revolution, according to Fatima, a volunteer leader, told CNN's Jill Dougherty.

"Many women would like to do it but their parents would not agree because it's a rural society and it's shameful for girls to go outside the home."

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(CNN) -- Most conservationists would agree that you should not interfere with mother nature. But there are exceptions to every rule.

Staff and tourists at Kapani Safari Lodge in Zambia were caught by surprise when a mother and baby elephant became trapped in mud.

Saying they couldn't just "stand by and watch them slowly die," what ensued was a dramatic rescue.

Together with the South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS) and the local wildlife authority, the team devised a plan to get the elephants out. The rest of the herd initially tried to help the screaming mother and baby escape, but they were stuck too deep.

Team managers from the conservation society slipped a rope around the baby and after a few attempts managed to pull her out of the muddy pit. The team says it took a lot of coaxing to get her out and on her feet though, adding that she "was terribly frightened and wouldn't leave her mum's side".

Getting the adult elephant out of the mud was a far more challenging task -- by the time the baby had been rescued, its mother was dehydrated and exhausted. But the SLCS team eventually pulled her out too, using a tractor and rope.

Staff at Kapani Lodge say it was "heart-warming to see how many local people joined in the efforts to free the two elephants... it was the happiest possible ending."

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SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- Debbie Brown used to process medical and dental forms for a living before a debilitating illness forced her into early disability retirement and left her in a simple, no-frills wheelchair -- a rented wheelchair that has cost taxpayers about $1,200.

CNN found a wheelchair similar to Debbie Brown's taxpayer-funded Medicare wheelchair for a fourth of the price.

Brown says the public should be outraged about her wheelchair.

Why? She says she could buy a comparable wheelchair on the Internet for $440 if she had the money. It sounded hard to believe that her rented, $1,200 taxpayer-funded wheelchair could be bought for $440, so CNN decided to check -- and instead found an even better deal.

CNN went to the same company that charges Medicare for Brown's chair, Apria Healthcare, and bought it for $349 -- about a fourth of what taxpayers' have paid for Brown's rented wheelchair.

That's why this slightly built woman, who lives modestly with her husband in Sacramento, California, believes her story and her wheelchair underscore the bigger problem of reforming health care in America.

"Now you multiply that by how many people have a manual wheelchair, especially the baby boomers, it multiplies and multiplies and that money could be spent, even a hundred dollars out of that ... could give someone else the options that they need," Brown said.

Reforming health care is at the top of the agenda in Washington. Everyone seems to agree this nation's health care costs and care availability are out of whack. Fixing it is another problem altogether. The Clintons failed. President Bush tried and got push-back as well. Now President Obama says he will do it because America can't put it off any longer.

But he, too, is finding the way forward is not an easy path.

Terms like "affordability," "single payer," "universal coverage," and an entire lexicon have become part of the health care buzz lingo. It is a complex issue with so many facets, so many lobbyists and so many special interests that one proposal seems to result in a competing proposal or proposals, or competing parties with concerns of their own.

To illustrate how difficult it will be to overhaul America's health care, CNN decided to focus on one item in the nation's health care bill: a basic wheelchair. The wheelchair, in its own small way, CNN discovered, gives a glimpse of the contentious and complex debate swirling around health care reform.

CNN interviewed Brown and her husband, Dennis Brown, at a community center in Sacramento. It is a place the couple visits frequently; it is free, offers programs, books, entertainment and features a park to stroll in.

Debbie Brown sent an e-mail to CNN months ago, outraged over the continuing Medicare payments for a wheelchair that after four years of use is not in the best shape. It squeaks and is hard to navigate. Her ride in it is made more difficult because her husband, retired from the armed services, is also on disability and has trouble getting the wheelchair in and out of the car. On days he is not well, he sometimes has trouble pushing her.

She showed CNN her bills and documented the fact that Medicare is still paying for the wheelchair after all these years. Medicare, with Brown's permission, confirmed the payments.

Brown referred us to the Internet sites where comparable chairs -- and better ones than hers -- are listed for a fraction of the cost Medicare pays over time. The Browns have a limited income and say they cannot afford to buy one.

That's when CNN decided to check Brown's story by buying one directly from Apria, based in Lake Forest, California. CNN paid cash for the chair after calling one of Apria's offices in an Atlanta, Georgia, suburb.

Apria representatives told the CNN buyer that the chair Brown had is no longer made but offered the model that is being rented and sold as the replacement model for the one Brown still uses.

When CNN asked Apria why it rented wheelchairs to the government for $1,200, but sold it to us for $349, the company said it was an "honest, unfortunate mistake."

Lisa M. Getson, Apria executive vice president for government relations, said in a letter that CNN "should have been charged $949, in accordance with Apria's retail price...."

"Since there's no comparable sale option in the Medicare system for such a wheelchair, our employee was confused by the sale request and charged the incorrect amount," Getson said.

But the amount CNN paid is comparable to many other companies' prices on the Web. A quick check found two firms selling the Invacare Tracer SX5 for $289.00 and $249.00, including delivery. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is nearly $300 less than the corrected Apria price.

Apria Healthcare said its costs are higher because of the stringent paperwork required by the government and because it provides 24-hour on-call service. Apria also points out that the cost of the wheelchair over the past four years has been less than 78 cents per day, a bargain because it allows the patient to remain at home.

Wheelchairs are classified as durable medical equipment, along with such items as oxygen tanks and home infusion therapies. Apria is the nation's leading provider of home health care products and services, according to its Web site.

The nation's $1 billion annual durable medical cost is only a fraction of Medicare's $444 billion budget last year, but one government officials believe it is time to rein in. That's where this story of the rented wheelchair gets caught between all the interests involved.

Congress sets the rates Medicare pays and Congress determined that wheelchairs should be billed on a monthly rate for 13 months -- the renter has to pay 20 percent of the costs. After 13 months, a user can opt to own it  -- if the user knows about the rule.

Brown, who worked in claims processing for years, said no one ever told her the wheelchair that barely works for her now is hers if she wants it. Instead, now that her rental term has ended, she gets billed by Apria every six months for service. Medicare pays $63 and she pays $16.

Jonathan Blum, one of Obama's picks to reform the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said it is simply wrong that a wheelchair an individual can buy for $349 has cost the government $1,200. He said the government has a plan to fix it: competitive bidding.

"The good news is we have new authority right now to use competitive bidding to give the program much more flexibility," Blum said.

But that's where the rubber -- or in this case, a wheelchair -- meets the road.

Medicare has tried for years to get a bidding project off the ground. Last year, a bidding project was stopped after two weeks.

The industry is flat-out against the government's proposed bidding project, contending it isn't competitive bidding at all. Opposing a bidding project is a well-funded lobbying industry, small- and durable-equipment businesses and special-interest groups who worry their ill clients won't be served if a bidding process as proposed by Medicare is put in place.

So CNN loaded its wheelchair onto a Delta 757 to Washington and rolled it through the halls of Congress to find out why any representative -- not to mention 84 of them (the number who signed an April letter asking that competitive bidding be put on hold once again) would object to a plan that Medicare maintains will save taxpayer money.

From Republican and Democrat alike, the answer was nearly identical as they sat for interviews next to CNN's $349 wheelchair.

"Well, you know what? I am a big believer in competitive bidding," said Rep. Betty Sutton, a Democrat from Ohio, where Invacare, one of the biggest manufacturers of durable equipment, is based. "So at the outset I absolutely concur. But this program as it has unfolded, as it's been developed it really is a competitive bidding process that isn't competitive bidding."

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, agreed.

"My hope is that as we look at health care reform that some of those that are working off of theory, if you will, and the federal system will slow down and we look at where the lessons learned should be and we will think long and hard before they move aboard a single-payer or mandated to restrict choice and restrict options for individuals," said Blackburn.

The American Association for Homecare, which represents many in the durable-equipment industry, said the bidding program is anti-competitive. In a statement, the association said the bidding program would "sacrifice care for seniors and people with disabilities" as it "reduces patient access to and choice for medical equipment."

The association said competitive bidding will "increase Medicare costs because it will lead to longer, more expensive hospital stays."

But John Rother, the head of policy and strategy for the retiree advocacy group AARP, said what's really happening is business trying to protect profits -- in this case profits four times the cost of Brown's wheelchair rental.

"It's an outrage," Rother said. "It's a ripping off of the taxpayer. It doesn't make any sense to have those kinds of expenses for products that could be bought for so much less."

Medicare again plans to try to get its competitive bidding program started later this year in at least nine markets, although Blum said it is unlikely to go into effect until next year.

As for Brown, her four-year-old wheelchair needs replacing. She's reluctantly applied through her doctor for a new one.

CNN's Marcus Hooper contributed to this report.

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text: wheelchair

text: could

text: be

text: bought

text: for

text: so

text: CNN

text: decided

text: to

text: check

text: and

text: instead

text: found

text: an

text: even

text: better

text: deal

text: CNN

text: went

text: to

text: the

text: same

text: company

text: that

text: charges

text: Medicare

text: for

text: Brown

text: 's

text: chair

text: Apria

text: Healthcare

text: and

text: bought

text: it

text: for

text: about

text: a

text: fourth

text: of

text: what

text: taxpayers

text: have

text: paid

text: for

text: Brown

text: 's

text: rented

text: wheelchair

text: That

text: 's

text: why

text: this

text: slightly

text: built

text: woman

text: who

text: lives

text: modestly

text: with

text: her

text: husband

text: in

text: Sacramento

text: California

text: believes

text: her

text: story

text: and

text: her

text: wheelchair

text: underscore

text: the

text: bigger

text: problem

text: of

text: reforming

text: health

text: care

text: in

text: America

text: Now

text: you

text: multiply

text: that

text: by

text: how

text: many

text: people

text: have

text: a

text: manual

text: wheelchair

text: especially

text: the

text: baby

text: boomers

text: it

text: multiplies

text: and

text: multiplies

text: and

text: that

text: money

text: could

text: be

text: spent

text: even

text: a

text: hundred

text: dollars

text: out

text: of

text: that

text: could

text: give

text: someone

text: else

text: the

text: options

text: that

text: they

text: need

text: Brown

text: said

text: Reforming

text: health

text: care

text: is

text: at

text: the

text: top

text: of

text: the

text: agenda

text: in

text: Washington

text: Everyone

text: seems

text: to

text: agree

text: this

text: nation

text: 's

text: health

text: care

text: costs

text: and

text: care

text: availability

text: are

text: out

text: of

text: whack

text: Fixing

text: it

text: is

text: another

text: problem

text: altogether

text: The

text: Clintons

text: failed

text: President

text: Bush

text: tried

text: and

text: got

text: push

text: back

text: as

text: well

text: Now

text: President

text: Obama

text: says

text: he

text: will

text: do

text: it

text: because

text: America

text: ca

text: n't

text: put

text: it

text: off

text: any

text: longer

text: But

text: he

text: too

text: is

text: finding

text: the

text: way

text: forward

text: is

text: not

text: an

text: easy

text: path

text: Terms

text: like

text: affordability

text: single

text: payer

text: universal

text: coverage

text: and

text: an

text: entire

text: lexicon

text: have

text: become

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: health

text: care

text: buzz

text: lingo

text: It

text: is

text: a

text: complex

text: issue

text: with

text: so

text: many

text: facets

text: so

text: many

text: lobbyists

text: and

text: so

text: many

text: special

text: interests

text: that

text: one

text: proposal

text: seems

text: to

text: result

text: in

text: a

text: competing

text: proposal

text: or

text: proposals

text: or

text: competing

text: parties

text: with

text: concerns

text: of

text: their

text: own

text: To

text: illustrate

text: how

text: difficult

text: it

text: will

text: be

text: to

text: overhaul

text: America

text: 's

text: health

text: care

text: CNN

text: decided

text: to

text: focus

text: on

text: one

text: item

text: in

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: health

text: care

text: bill

text: a

text: basic

text: wheelchair

text: The

text: wheelchair

text: in

text: its

text: own

text: small

text: way

text: CNN

text: discovered

text: gives

text: a

text: glimpse

text: of

text: the

text: contentious

text: and

text: complex

text: debate

text: swirling

text: around

text: health

text: care

text: reform

text: CNN

text: interviewed

text: Brown

text: and

text: her

text: husband

text: Dennis

text: Brown

text: at

text: a

text: community

text: center

text: in

text: Sacramento

text: It

text: is

text: a

text: place

text: the

text: couple

text: visits

text: frequently

text: it

text: is

text: free

text: offers

text: programs

text: books

text: entertainment

text: and

text: features

text: a

text: park

text: to

text: stroll

text: in

text: Debbie

text: Brown

text: sent

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: to

text: CNN

text: months

text: ago

text: outraged

text: over

text: the

text: continuing

text: Medicare

text: payments

text: for

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: that

text: after

text: four

text: years

text: of

text: use

text: is

text: not

text: in

text: the

text: best

text: shape

text: It

text: squeaks

text: and

text: is

text: hard

text: to

text: navigate

text: Her

text: ride

text: in

text: it

text: is

text: made

text: more

text: difficult

text: because

text: her

text: husband

text: retired

text: from

text: the

text: armed

text: services

text: is

text: also

text: on

text: disability

text: and

text: has

text: trouble

text: getting

text: the

text: wheelchair

text: in

text: and

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: car

text: On

text: days

text: he

text: is

text: not

text: well

text: he

text: sometimes

text: has

text: trouble

text: pushing

text: her

text: She

text: showed

text: CNN

text: her

text: bills

text: and

text: documented

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: Medicare

text: is

text: still

text: paying

text: for

text: the

text: wheelchair

text: after

text: all

text: these

text: years

text: Medicare

text: with

text: Brown

text: 's

text: permission

text: confirmed

text: the

text: payments

text: Brown

text: referred

text: us

text: to

text: the

text: Internet

text: sites

text: where

text: comparable

text: chairs

text: and

text: better

text: ones

text: than

text: hers

text: are

text: listed

text: for

text: a

text: fraction

text: of

text: the

text: cost

text: Medicare

text: pays

text: over

text: time

text: The

text: Browns

text: have

text: a

text: limited

text: income

text: and

text: say

text: they

text: can

text: not

text: afford

text: to

text: buy

text: one

text: That

text: 's

text: when

text: CNN

text: decided

text: to

text: check

text: Brown

text: 's

text: story

text: by

text: buying

text: one

text: directly

text: from

text: Apria

text: based

text: in

text: Lake

text: Forest

text: California

text: CNN

text: paid

text: cash

text: for

text: the

text: chair

text: after

text: calling

text: one

text: of

text: Apria

text: 's

text: offices

text: in

text: an

text: Atlanta

text: Georgia

text: suburb

text: Apria

text: representatives

text: told

text: the

text: CNN

text: buyer

text: that

text: the

text: chair

text: Brown

text: had

text: is

text: no

text: longer

text: made

text: but

text: offered

text: the

text: model

text: that

text: is

text: being

text: rented

text: and

text: sold

text: as

text: the

text: replacement

text: model

text: for

text: the

text: one

text: Brown

text: still

text: uses

text: When

text: CNN

text: asked

text: Apria

text: why

text: it

text: rented

text: wheelchairs

text: to

text: the

text: government

text: for

text: but

text: sold

text: it

text: to

text: us

text: for

text: the

text: company

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: an

text: honest

text: unfortunate

text: mistake

text: Lisa

text: M.

text: Getson

text: Apria

text: executive

text: vice

text: president

text: for

text: government

text: relations

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: letter

text: that

text: CNN

text: should

text: have

text: been

text: charged

text: in

text: accordance

text: with

text: Apria

text: 's

text: retail

text: price

text: Since

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: comparable

text: sale

text: option

text: in

text: the

text: Medicare

text: system

text: for

text: such

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: our

text: employee

text: was

text: confused

text: by

text: the

text: sale

text: request

text: and

text: charged

text: the

text: incorrect

text: amount

text: Getson

text: said

text: But

text: the

text: amount

text: CNN

text: paid

text: is

text: comparable

text: to

text: many

text: other

text: companies

text: prices

text: on

text: the

text: Web

text: A

text: quick

text: check

text: found

text: two

text: firms

text: selling

text: the

text: Invacare

text: Tracer

text: for

text: and

text: including

text: delivery

text: The

text: manufacturer

text: 's

text: suggested

text: retail

text: price

text: is

text: nearly

text: less

text: than

text: the

text: corrected

text: Apria

text: price

text: Apria

text: Healthcare

text: said

text: its

text: costs

text: are

text: higher

text: because

text: of

text: the

text: stringent

text: paperwork

text: required

text: by

text: the

text: government

text: and

text: because

text: it

text: provides

text: on

text: call

text: service

text: Apria

text: also

text: points

text: out

text: that

text: the

text: cost

text: of

text: the

text: wheelchair

text: over

text: the

text: past

text: four

text: years

text: has

text: been

text: less

text: than

text: cents

text: per

text: day

text: a

text: bargain

text: because

text: it

text: allows

text: the

text: patient

text: to

text: remain

text: at

text: home

text: Wheelchairs

text: are

text: classified

text: as

text: durable

text: medical

text: equipment

text: along

text: with

text: such

text: items

text: as

text: oxygen

text: tanks

text: and

text: home

text: infusion

text: therapies

text: Apria

text: is

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: leading

text: provider

text: of

text: home

text: health

text: care

text: products

text: and

text: services

text: according

text: to

text: its

text: Web

text: site

text: The

text: nation

text: 's

text: billion

text: annual

text: durable

text: medical

text: cost

text: is

text: only

text: a

text: fraction

text: of

text: Medicare

text: 's

text: billion

text: budget

text: last

text: year

text: but

text: one

text: government

text: officials

text: believe

text: it

text: is

text: time

text: to

text: rein

text: in

text: That

text: 's

text: where

text: this

text: story

text: of

text: the

text: rented

text: wheelchair

text: gets

text: caught

text: between

text: all

text: the

text: interests

text: involved

text: Congress

text: sets

text: the

text: rates

text: Medicare

text: pays

text: and

text: Congress

text: determined

text: that

text: wheelchairs

text: should

text: be

text: billed

text: on

text: a

text: monthly

text: rate

text: for

text: months

text: the

text: renter

text: has

text: to

text: pay

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: costs

text: After

text: months

text: a

text: user

text: can

text: opt

text: to

text: own

text: it

text: if

text: the

text: user

text: knows

text: about

text: the

text: rule

text: Brown

text: who

text: worked

text: in

text: claims

text: processing

text: for

text: years

text: said

text: no

text: one

text: ever

text: told

text: her

text: the

text: wheelchair

text: that

text: barely

text: works

text: for

text: her

text: now

text: is

text: hers

text: if

text: she

text: wants

text: it

text: Instead

text: now

text: that

text: her

text: rental

text: term

text: has

text: ended

text: she

text: gets

text: billed

text: by

text: Apria

text: every

text: six

text: months

text: for

text: service

text: Medicare

text: pays

text: and

text: she

text: pays

text: Jonathan

text: Blum

text: one

text: of

text: Obama

text: 's

text: picks

text: to

text: reform

text: the

text: Centers

text: for

text: Medicare

text: and

text: Medicaid

text: Services

text: said

text: it

text: is

text: simply

text: wrong

text: that

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: an

text: individual

text: can

text: buy

text: for

text: has

text: cost

text: the

text: government

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: government

text: has

text: a

text: plan

text: to

text: fix

text: it

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: The

text: good

text: news

text: is

text: we

text: have

text: new

text: authority

text: right

text: now

text: to

text: use

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: to

text: give

text: the

text: program

text: much

text: more

text: flexibility

text: Blum

text: said

text: But

text: that

text: 's

text: where

text: the

text: rubber

text: or

text: in

text: this

text: case

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: meets

text: the

text: road

text: Medicare

text: has

text: tried

text: for

text: years

text: to

text: get

text: a

text: bidding

text: project

text: off

text: the

text: ground

text: Last

text: year

text: a

text: bidding

text: project

text: was

text: stopped

text: after

text: two

text: weeks

text: The

text: industry

text: is

text: flat

text: out

text: against

text: the

text: government

text: 's

text: proposed

text: bidding

text: project

text: contending

text: it

text: is

text: n't

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: at

text: all

text: Opposing

text: a

text: bidding

text: project

text: is

text: a

text: well

text: funded

text: lobbying

text: industry

text: small-

text: and

text: durable

text: equipment

text: businesses

text: and

text: special

text: interest

text: groups

text: who

text: worry

text: their

text: ill

text: clients

text: wo

text: n't

text: be

text: served

text: if

text: a

text: bidding

text: process

text: as

text: proposed

text: by

text: Medicare

text: is

text: put

text: in

text: place

text: So

text: CNN

text: loaded

text: its

text: wheelchair

text: onto

text: a

text: Delta

text: to

text: Washington

text: and

text: rolled

text: it

text: through

text: the

text: halls

text: of

text: Congress

text: to

text: find

text: out

text: why

text: any

text: representative

text: not

text: to

text: mention

text: of

text: them

text: the

text: number

text: who

text: signed

text: an

text: April

text: letter

text: asking

text: that

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: be

text: put

text: on

text: hold

text: once

text: again

text: would

text: object

text: to

text: a

text: plan

text: that

text: Medicare

text: maintains

text: will

text: save

text: taxpayer

text: money

text: From

text: Republican

text: and

text: Democrat

text: alike

text: the

text: answer

text: was

text: nearly

text: identical

text: as

text: they

text: sat

text: for

text: interviews

text: next

text: to

text: CNN

text: 's

text: wheelchair

text: Well

text: you

text: know

text: what

text: I

text: am

text: a

text: big

text: believer

text: in

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: said

text: Rep.

text: Betty

text: Sutton

text: a

text: Democrat

text: from

text: Ohio

text: where

text: Invacare

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: biggest

text: manufacturers

text: of

text: durable

text: equipment

text: is

text: based

text: So

text: at

text: the

text: outset

text: I

text: absolutely

text: concur

text: But

text: this

text: program

text: as

text: it

text: has

text: unfolded

text: as

text: it

text: 's

text: been

text: developed

text: it

text: really

text: is

text: a

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: process

text: that

text: is

text: n't

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: Rep.

text: Marsha

text: Blackburn

text: a

text: Republican

text: from

text: Tennessee

text: agreed

text: My

text: hope

text: is

text: that

text: as

text: we

text: look

text: at

text: health

text: care

text: reform

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: those

text: that

text: are

text: working

text: off

text: of

text: theory

text: if

text: you

text: will

text: and

text: the

text: federal

text: system

text: will

text: slow

text: down

text: and

text: we

text: look

text: at

text: where

text: the

text: lessons

text: learned

text: should

text: be

text: and

text: we

text: will

text: think

text: long

text: and

text: hard

text: before

text: they

text: move

text: aboard

text: a

text: single

text: payer

text: or

text: mandated

text: to

text: restrict

text: choice

text: and

text: restrict

text: options

text: for

text: individuals

text: said

text: Blackburn

text: The

text: American

text: Association

text: for

text: Homecare

text: which

text: represents

text: many

text: in

text: the

text: durable

text: equipment

text: industry

text: said

text: the

text: bidding

text: program

text: is

text: anti

text: competitive

text: In

text: a

text: statement

text: the

text: association

text: said

text: the

text: bidding

text: program

text: would

text: sacrifice

text: care

text: for

text: seniors

text: and

text: people

text: with

text: disabilities

text: as

text: it

text: reduces

text: patient

text: access

text: to

text: and

text: choice

text: for

text: medical

text: equipment

text: The

text: association

text: said

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: will

text: increase

text: Medicare

text: costs

text: because

text: it

text: will

text: lead

text: to

text: longer

text: more

text: expensive

text: hospital

text: stays

text: But

text: John

text: Rother

text: the

text: head

text: of

text: policy

text: and

text: strategy

text: for

text: the

text: retiree

text: advocacy

text: group

text: AARP

text: said

text: what

text: 's

text: really

text: happening

text: is

text: business

text: trying

text: to

text: protect

text: profits

text: in

text: this

text: case

text: profits

text: four

text: times

text: the

text: cost

text: of

text: Brown

text: 's

text: wheelchair

text: rental

text: It

text: 's

text: an

text: outrage

text: Rother

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: ripping

text: off

text: of

text: the

text: taxpayer

text: It

text: does

text: n't

text: make

text: any

text: sense

text: to

text: have

text: those

text: kinds

text: of

text: expenses

text: for

text: products

text: that

text: could

text: be

text: bought

text: for

text: so

text: much

text: less

text: Medicare

text: again

text: plans

text: to

text: try

text: to

text: get

text: its

text: competitive

text: bidding

text: program

text: started

text: later

text: this

text: year

text: in

text: at

text: least

text: nine

text: markets

text: although

text: Blum

text: said

text: it

text: is

text: unlikely

text: to

text: go

text: into

text: effect

text: until

text: next

text: year

text: As

text: for

text: Brown

text: her

text: four

text: year

text: old

text: wheelchair

text: needs

text: replacing

text: She

text: 's

text: reluctantly

text: applied

text: through

text: her

text: doctor

text: for

text: a

text: new

text: one

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Marcus

text: Hooper

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What does Debbie Brown think?

answer: says the public should be outraged about her wheelchair.

text: says the public should be outraged about her wheelchair.

question: Who believes her story?

answer: Debbie Brown

text: Debbie Brown

question: What is the debate?

answer: health care reform.

text: health care reform.

question: What can the wheelchair be bought for?

answer: $349

question: Who found the cheaper chair?

answer: CNN

text: CNN

question: Who found a chair that could be bought for a fourth of the price?

answer: CNN

text: CNN

question: What can be bought for $440?

answer: a comparable wheelchair on the Internet

text: a comparable wheelchair on the Internet