Roanoke Times: Employees and medical staff at Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem spent a little over an hour Monday sharing insights and questions about health care reform with U.S. Sen. Mark Warner.

Senator Warner was in Roanoke today, and dropped by the studio at WDBJ Ch. 7 to talk about health care during the noon broadcast.

Washington Post: "It's not good enough that it's just paid for; it actually has to start driving long-term costs down," said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), one of nine freshman Democrats who last month urged Senate leaders to pay more attention to controlling federal health spending in this era of "exploding debt and deficits."

Senator Warner appeared on CNBC today, to talk about his op-ed calling for a single banking regulator. He also talks about his hopes of seeing a health care bill that creates a "competitive alternative" that helps drive down costs. Here is the interview:

Senator Warner appeared on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" yesterday to discuss the need for health reform. He said the status quo for those who have health insurance, as well as those who don't, would be "disastrous:"