This week, the Senate will take up debate on its health care reform bill. One of the questions at the center of that discussion will be how best to cut costs and still maintain good care. Last week, we heard new recommendations from a physicians' group on breast cancer and cervical cancer screening that would produce exactly that result: good care, at lower costs.  The scientific basis for the recommendations appears sound, and yet the public response to those recommendations ranged from confused to angry. What happens when the science on good health care clashes with people's feelings about their own care? We speak to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania; along with Dr. Stacy Berg, pediatric oncologist at Texas Children’s Hospital.

• Finance Takeout: New York Times finance reporter Louise Story joins us this morning to talk about private companies buying at-risk mortgages at a discount, sharing the profit with the home owners, and shifting the risk to taxpayer-backed federal agencies. (Read the full story at The New York Times.)
• Sports Takeout: Our sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, looks at the weekend's games and the undefeated records of the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints.

Marcus Mabry, international business editor for The New York Times, and Nazes Afroz, executive editor for the Asia-Pacific region for the BBC, take a look at what's ahead for Indian prime minister Mahmohan Singh's first visit to the White House this week. They'll also take a look at what's ahead in Afghanistan; what's next in health care reform; what retailers can expect on Black Friday; and another week for Sarah Palin's book tour.

We check in on a potentially historic runoff for mayor of Atlanta, wher polls indicate Atlantans may elect the first white mayor since the 1970s. Turnout is expected to be low, however, and neither candidate is inspiring much excitement, so the vote may turn out to be a referendum on the local party machine and not about race. Last night the two candidates debated; we talk with Rickey Bevington, of Georgia Public Broadcasting, who hosted the debate. 

There's only four days left until Thanksgiving, when most of us will gather around the dinner table for a much-anticipated meal.  But conversation at that meal doesn't always turn out to be as harmonious as we predict.  We're joined by Takeaway contributor Kate Dailey, health & lifestyle editor for Newsweek.com; and Rochelle Riley, columnist for The Detroit Free Press, who give us their tips for surviving your crazy family on the day we're supposed to be most thankful for them.

On Saturday night, Democrats in the Senate secured the 60 votes necessary to introduce health care legislation to weeks of debate and amendment proposals. The vote signaled a further advance in the movement to overhaul America's ailing health care system and, by extension, its economy. But it seems that the process of fixing things has been going on for an awfully long time now. We discuss the history of big legislative efforts with Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University, and our Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich.

• Money Takeout: A new Harvard study proves what most of us could have guessed: the executives of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns are still rich, even though they lost $900 million in stocks with the two bankruptcies. Louise Story, of The New York Times, explains.
• Sports Takeout: Our own Ibrahim Abdul-Matin talks NASCAR's record-making Jimmie Johnson, and responds to a listener's comment on football helmets.
• Listener Takeout: We hear more reactions to Oprah's announcement that she'll end her show in 2011.

The public option and the abortion-funding 'Stupak Amendment' have been hotly debated as health care reform grinds on, but another issue has been bubbling beneath the surface ever since Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) loosed his now infamous outburst, "You lie!", during President Obama's speech to Congress in September: the question of how – and whether – illegal immigrants will be covered under the various proposals for health care reform. The House and Senate bills offer different answers to that question, and some wonder if illegal immigration will become the next battleground on which the debate over health care reform is waged. We're joined by Ignacio Lopez, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico. He suffers from kidney failure, but the hospital where he used to receive dialysis closed its outpatient clinic because there were simply too many illegal immigrants getting free care. Kevin Sack covered the story for our partners, The New York Times.

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There's a fight brewing with a specific fish breed in the Great Lakes region. The invasive Asian carp is ravaging the aquatic food chain for native fish, and making their way up the Mississippi toward the Great Lakes. Millions have been spent already on fencing and barriers to keep the carp from making it to open waters, but the measures appears to be failing. Ken DeBeaussaert, director of the Office of Great Lakes for Michigan, tells us about the impact this foreign species is having on domestic waterways.

We begin a week-long series on faith in America with a conversation about pushing boundaries within religious traditions. Jay Bakker, son of 'televangelists' Jim and Tammy Faye, discusses his inclusive Revolution Church in Brooklyn and the effects becoming a gay-affirming pastor had on his ministry. And Joel Hunter, the evangelical head of the Northland Church, in Florida, explains why supporting environmental conservation and AIDS outreach are an essential part of being pro-life.