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Entries in Health Care (259)

Wednesday
May202009

GOP:Patients' Choice Act "Empowers" Americans

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) gives an example of how the Patients' Choice Act of 2009 can help "empower" Americans. (1:07)
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Tuesday
May192009

Barrasso On His Gitmo Experience

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) describes his experience as he visited the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Barrasso insists that not only are the living conditions in the prison comfortable but also that the treatment of the prisoners, included health care, is excellent. (0:35)
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Tuesday
May122009

Geithner: Obama Admin. Saving Social Security

Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner explains how the Obama Administration is committed to making reforms to Social Security and Medicare in order to make them economically viable for the future. He mentioned how President Obama negotiated a $2 billion reduction in health care costs. (0:28)
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Friday
May082009

Spirituality & health care, working together

Cholene Espinoza speaks with Dr. Allan Hamilton, author of The Scalpel and the Soul, about health and spirituality, coping, the use of medical simulators to avoid errors, and other improvements to health care. (15:08)
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Thursday
Apr162009

Healthcare help for laid off employees 

During a conference call to release a report titled “States Act to Help People Laid Off From Small Firms But More Needs to Be Done,” Kathleen Stoll, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Health Policy, stressed the importance of the new provision which provides 65% coverage of premiums for health care; available for employees laid off between September 2008 and February 2009, and helps cover premiums for up to nine months. (1:08)
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Sunday
Mar292009

What about the under-insured?

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans disagrees with the premise.


02:48
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Sunday
Mar292009

Federal health insurance is not public health insurance.

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans clarifies Obama's plan.

02:13
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Sunday
Mar292009

Can your sister's genes get you declined?

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans explains that it would be illegal to decline health insurance based on genetic screening, either of the applicant or of a relative.

02:06
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Sunday
Mar292009

Universal healthcare: How do private insurers fit in?

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

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans explains the role of private insurers in healthcare reform.


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Sunday
Mar292009

Is Comparative Effectiveness Research "rationing"?

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans explains that CER is not rationing.


01:41
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Sunday
Mar292009

Private insurers say effective care controls costs.

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, Talk Radio News

Robert Zirkelbach of America's Health Insurance Plans explains that best care controls costs.




03:24
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Tuesday
Mar032009

Pelosi attends Maria Leavey Breakfast with Media

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico - Talk Radio News Service

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Speaks at the annual Maria Leavey Breakfast in the US Capitol. Pelosi talks about health care, education, working with President Obama, and the speed at which the economic recovery package was rushed through. The Speaker said jokingly about the recovery package that if she had wanted to, she "could have fast tracked it much faster". (56:41)
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Monday
Mar022009

Kerri Houston: President Obama learned a wise lesson from Hillary Clinton

Talk Radio News Service, Victoria Jones, interviews Kerri Houston, the Institute for Liberty's Senior Vice President for Policy at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Houston talks about health care, importation legislation, and prescription costs. Houston says that President Obama learned a very wise lesson about government run health care from Hillary Clinton in the 1990's saying that, "You do not share the whole package of popcorn down someone's throat." (10:20)
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Tuesday
Nov252008

AIDS in the U.S.

Carl Schmid, Director of Federal Affairs at the AIDS Institute, discusses the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and what groups have been most affected by the virus. (0:38)
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Friday
Nov142008

Looking at health care 20 years down the road

Thomas Bjorn Zeltner, Director-General of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, talks about the importance of developing a long-term health care plan. (1:25)
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Tuesday
Oct282008

Obama campaign agrees with McCain campaign for once

Obama-Biden Senior Adviser Anita Dunn says that McCain Senior Policy Adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin's admission that a health care plan one receives at their job is better than any plan they could get with McCain's tax credit is surprising but true. (1:06)
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Wednesday
Oct152008

Is McCain's health care plan more fair?

Doug Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Adviser for the McCain-Palin campaign, explains the differences between McCain and Obama's health care tax credits. (0:44)


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Wednesday
Oct152008

Health care reform not just needed in U.S.

David Jaimovich, Chief Medical Officer at Joint Commission International (JCI), talks about the problems he has seen in hospitals around the world. He notes what he and JCI plan to do about it. (0:43)
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Tuesday
Sep302008

Elizabeth Edwards on consequences of lacking healthcare

Elizabeth Edwards, Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund comments on how the lack of health insurance affects working productivity due to people not insured and unable to work, never get treatment they need. (0:50)
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Friday
Sep262008

Health care's importance decreases as election nears

Health Policy Correspondent for National Public Radio Joanne Silberner says the issue of health care takes a back seat to other issues. (0:53)
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