Katie Couric's Notebook: Health Care

One key topic is his health care reform plan - a proposal that's been collecting the cuts and bruises of politics from both sides of the Congressional gauntlet.

Republicans say the bill could be his "Waterloo." Senator James DeMint even said it could break him.

Some members of the president's own party believe the goal of getting the work done before the August recess is ambitious at best, with so many details still to hammer out.

President Obama says a deadline is necessary to end the inertia and inaction that have stalled health care reform for 50 years.

There is much debate about what needs to be done, and only about half of Americans approve of the president's handling of health care. But the vast majority agree - something has to change to control skyrocketing costs.

What they need is assurance that reform will be done right and not just right now.

I'm Michelle Miller, CBS News.