Health debate coming to the end?

By Ann Curry, NBC News anchor

In for Brian Williams tonight, and the Nightly team is scrambling.

That's because in just a matter of days we should know where the long, roaring battle over health care will finally lead us.
 
Today President Obama postponed his schedueled trip to Indonesia and Australia because it looks like the House vote will be this coming Sunday, and he wants to be in Washington to see what happens.

Speaker Pelosi reacted, saying about the President, "This is historical. I'm sure he wants to be here for the history."

Actually, after all these months of political wrangling in Washington, it's still unclear as to whether the bill will pass, how we'll pay for it, and what exactly would change.  But we're beginning to get a good idea.  oday the House posted the entire bill on line. Here's the link if you have a lot of time on your hands.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/hr4872/111_hr4872_amndsub.pdf 

Otherwise you can see what our crack reporters Kelly O'Donnell and Savannah Guthrie have gleaned, in their reports tonight. 

Nancy Snyderman reports from Haiti, Bob Bazell has a story about how text messages are being used to fight childhood obesity, and Mike Taibbi reports on 77-year-old Sister Rose Ann Fleming, who is behind Xavier's winning NCAA basketball team.

But our executive producer Bob Epstein is also thinking a lot about today's news that Fess Parker has died at 85.  Remember, Parker was the actor who played the brave Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone in the 60s and 70s. Bob, like a lot of boys, was inspired to wear a coon skin hat then, because they too wanted to be kings of the wild frontier. Fess Parker, we will be sure to tip our caps for that tonight. 

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