House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a visit to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital today that a government-run insurance program must be in the final version of health-care reform, even as other Democratic leaders have suggested it could pass without the provision.

"No bill can pass the House of Representatives without a public option in it," Pelosi said, after touring the hospital emergency room.

For A.J. and Lisa Demaree, the photos they snapped of their young daughters were innocent and sweet.

But after a photo developer at Wal-Mart thought otherwise, the Demarees found themselves in a yearlong battle to prove they were not child pornographers.

"I don't' understand it at all," A.J. Demaree told "Good Morning America" Monday. "Ninety-nine percent of the families in America have these exact same photos."

The eight photos in question were among a batch of 144 family photos the Demarees had taken to their local Wal-Mart. The developer alerted the police and the investigation into child pornography began in earnest, even though the parents maintained they were innocent bath time photos.

NPR is running a series on health care called:
Are You Covered?

It's a good series so far, definitely a more useful discussion of health care than 90% of the current blather.  I go to dkos and nyceve has a diary up based on Monday's episode in the series.  Only NPR isn't directly credited, to my surprise and confusion.  I click on the links and find the story on a web page that does credit "our partners at NPR".  Okay.  That's what I thought.  But why didn't nyceve link directly to the NPR page or credit them directly?  I know bloggers can get pretty cranky when the MSM lifts something of theirs without attribution.

You see - nyceve is now a paid blogger.  I wasn't a fan of her diaries when she did it purely out of passion.  Her diaries were heavy with emotional rhetoric and light on the medical realities.  More than once the narrative was: OMG! Someone will DIE without this!  when the medical reality was likely that they would die with the whatever.  Once it was a liver transplant for a cancer patient, a very ill patient.  Liver transplants are hardly common and if yours has ceased to function, unless you have a donor ready now, you'll die in days, even if you are healthy.  (See acetaminophen overdose)  I didn't bother to point this out in the comments because I could tell people wanted to believe that a liver transplant would Save Her Life.