On Friday morning, I’ll be heading to the White House to videotape a conversation with Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform (aka the President’s health reform czar – or maybe czarina?).

We’re lucky to get this time with her, because she’s been spending long, long hours lately in hard negotiations with Senate leaders over the shape of the health reform legislation that Congress will likely be voting on within the next few months.

Unlike political reporters interested in who’s up and who’s down, and what this or that Washington insider does or doesn’t support, I want to ask DeParle the questions that matter to regular consumers. And for this, I need your help.

I already know I’ll be asking about issues like whether consumers who currently can’t get or can’t afford insurance will be able to secure truly affordable coverage after reform. And about what people who are hurting now are supposed to do in the three-year gap between when reform legislation passes in 2010 (and some sort of legislation seems increasingly likely to pass) and when the actual reforms go into effect in 2013.

So, what would you like to ask Nancy-Ann DeParle? Maybe you’re concerned about Medicare, or about the security of the coverage you get on the job. Maybe you’re worried about how your son who just graduated from college, but can’t find a job, is supposed to afford health care. Maybe you wonder just how, exactly, the public plan we’re hearing so much about would affect you and your family.

Ask away. About anything at all related to health reform. We’ll be taking suggestions right up until Thursday night. (Please submit questions in Comments.)

–Nancy Metcalf, senior program editor