AARP Stresses Need For Workplace Wellness Programs

Vice President of Social Impact for AARP Nancy LeaMond says,‘‘Workplace wellness programs have great potential to promote healthier lives and lower premiums and total system costs," during a briefing on Monday. (0:11)
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Business Want Health Reform Says Insurance Advocate

During a briefing on Monday, Alliance for Health Reform official Ed Howard says, "Firms want a healthier more productive workforce." Howard spoke about the AARP's Workplace Wellness Program to lower premiums and total system costs for businesses. (0:11)
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President Obama Says Health Care Reform Is In Sight

President Obama held a press conference Friday to give an update on the progress of health care reform. He said that more groups are signing on to tackle the issue including pharmaceutical companies, AARP, American Nurses Association and the American Medical Association. In addition, Obama said he is committed to not having health care add to the national deficit. The President was definite in saying that health care reform will be achieved by the end of this year. (9:06)
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Jobs, and Patients, Go Begging as Nursing Schools Turn Away Applicants

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, for Talk Radio News Service

Susan Reinhard, AARP's Public Policy Institute, says that we will need as many as a million more nurses that we'll have in 2025. To get there, we'll need twice as many instructors as we have now, but half of current instructors will have been lost to retirement.

The net result is that, as hospitals scramble to hire, about 100,000 potential nursing students were turned away for lack of slots.

"Nursing is a recession-proof job."
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A gateway to better care, “McCain want's all Americans covered”

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Advisor with the John McCain campaign speaks about McCain’s health care insurance proposal. Holtz-Eakin was on hand with Barack Obama Policy Advisor Jeffrey Liebman to discuss how the next president will pay our nation’s bills; the forum was sponsored by AARP. (0:47)
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Obama camp okay with raising taxes to fund social security

Jeffrey Liebman, a policy advisor to the Barack Obama campaign says the McCain campaign put out an economic plan in which they said the Obama campaign cannot afford our benefit promises to seniors for social security. But Liebman says that Obama “does believe we can choose to meet our benefit promises to seniors.” Liebman added that Obama believes the best way to handle social security is “in a bi-partisan way,” and that the place to start in paying for it is “to have the people that can most afford it contribute more revenue.” (0:40)
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McCain camp says Obama’s words have “short half life.”

Douglas Holtz-Eakin a policy advisor with the John McCain campaign criticizes Sen. Barack Obama for reversing his positions on a whole host of issues. In attacking, Holtz-Eakin says “words from the Obama campaign have a very short half life.” Holt-Eakin was joined by Jeffrey Liebman from the Obama campaign for an AARP forum on paying our nation’s future bills by the next president. (1:19)
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