Support for health care reform is growing. The current bill would end denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and to help curb costs, it would also require all Americans to get coverage and it has measures to try to reduce overall medical costs. The news is abuzz with new-found support for the bill.

Stephen Colbert does a fantastic job showing how polls work and includes an interview with Scott Rasmussen about polls on health care reform. I think something they forget to talk about is this: what percentage of the people who say they don't like the current bill wish it would have done more? According to Steven Kull there are about 17% of people who disapprove of the current bill because they wanted it to include more...not less.

I keep hearing republicans say that American's are against health care reform. I know this doesn't represent my view. Does it represent yours? Other polls show that some of the opposition to the current bill is that it doesn't go far enough.

This is a guest post by Dr. Joshua Freeman, a family physician, educator and author of the blog, Medicine and Social Justice. As we wait to see if the President’s health reform bill passes, it is a good time to review the actual core reasons why we need health reform. I believe that this will help ground us, and allow us to evaluate both whatever finally passes, and help us ignore the political posturing and maneuvering that distract us from them.

This is a guest post from Dr. Doug Iliff, a family physician who practices in Topeka, KS. He writes about six myths that are framing the health care debate such as rationing care and consumer empowerment. Myth 1: President Obama is trying to pull a fast one. He wants to ration care based on medical evidence. In fact, medical services are rationed now in any number of ways - including, but not limited to, ability to pay, insurance approval, location, transportation, attitudes of relatives and competence of medical professionals.

There's a lot of sensationalism in health care reform language: death panels, rationing care, government-run health care. These are all examples of sensationalism in the health care reform debate that's been causing a lot of angst. The thing is, they're based on misinformation.