Healthcare Reform: Should Obama Have Fought for Single-Payer?

The President wants the US Supreme Court to resolve constitutional issues over his healthcare reform. What could that mean for next year's elections? Is a "single payer" plan providing "universal coverage" still a live issue after all? Also, another Washington budget showdown in the works, and Occupy Wall Street spreads to other cities and finds a message: "We are the 99 percent." We hear what that means.

Banner image: President Barack Obama speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, October 3, 2011. Seated alongside him are (L-R): Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo by Saul LOEB/AFP/Getty Images