Health Care Reform: Questions for the President

June 24, 2009— -- "Health care reform is on life support," says Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee. And he's a Democrat.

President Obama has spent months building momentum for health care reform. But when the Congressional Budget Office put the price tag near $2 trillion, it stopped reform dead in its tracks.

What Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., once called "nearly inevitable" now seems much less so -- and that's before supporters have confronted the really tough questions.

Before this debate is over, Obama should answer a few questions about his plans for reform, including: