Abortion-rights advocacy groups are ramping up advertising campaigns and lobbying efforts to prevent Rep.

The wait for the Congressional Budget Office score on the Senate health care reform bill has left Senators with time to carefully consider all the angles on reform, The New York Times reports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “has already received some substantial analysis of his measure, and if the numbers had been what he wanted, he would have released a bill by now.

In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes about long-term care: “The CLASS Act – the far-reaching proposal to create a national long-term care insurance program – is in the House health reform bill, and is still in the mix as Senate leaders struggle to design their own version of reform.

Roll Call reports that President Obama’s eight-day trip to Asia “will have little effect on Democrats’ ability to move health care legislation through the Senate, according to Senate and White House aides.” When news first broke that he would be gone for an extended amount of time, many Democrats met the news with “consternation,” but it now appears that Obama won’t be missing the “crunch time.

The Wall Street Journal: “When the Senate unveils its health-care bill, all eyes will be on the price tag. But an equally significant number may be how many people get health insurance under the legislation.” The two versions of committee-passed legislation in the Senate “would extend insurance to fewer people than the final bill passed through the House.