This morning's must see:

If you're following health care reform, it's worth your time to view President Obama's entire speech to the American Medical Association. The C-Span version is available on the Kaiser Health News site. . . .  

Top stories:

The AMA speech gets wall-to-wall coverage. The New York Times wraps speech highlights into a story that reveals that Congressional Budget Office analysts say the Senate legislation unveiled last week would leave 36 million people uninsured in 2017. . . . The Wall Street Journal supplements its coverage with forward spin on deliberations in the Senate Finance Committee, which may substitute 50 state-run co-operatives for a national public plan and is toying with a national value-added tax to finance reform. . . . So much for "MedPAC on steroids" as a way to hold down health care costs: A Washington Post sidebar calls the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission mid-year report "short on solutions". . . . 

In other news:

Tobacco advertising controls could face a court challenge on free speech grounds, the New York Times reports. . . . According to the Wall Street Journal, General Electric wants a piece of the health information technology market, and is offering zero percent loans on its offerings to get it. . . . An FDA-funded study shows a link between ADHD drugs and sudden unexplained deaths in children, but the agency downplayed the results as inconclusive, according to this Washington Post story. . . . The AMA resolves there's no proof that anti-aging hormones work, according to the Associated Press. . . .    

And around the Internet:

Steve Grossman of FDA Matters touts acting surgeon general Steven Galson to run the new tobacco regulation division, while recommending to Commissioner Margaret Hamburg that its functions be kept entirely separate from the rest of the agency. Grossman follows on RPM Report journalist Kate Rawson, who highlighted Galson's credentials for the job last March. . . . Following up on the New America Foundation's Capitol Hill presentation last week, Joanne Kenen's New Health Dialogue blog touts health care systems around the country that are actually delivering lower costs while improving care quality. . . .