Health Costs To Top $8,000 per U.S. Resident in 2009

A new government study released Tuesday estimates that health care costs will average more than $8,000 per U.S. resident this year. Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard University, discusses health care reform.

• "President Obama's Healthcare Reform Plans" (Young, "Here and Now," WBUR, 2/24).