From the Commonwealth Club of California Podcast is here.
Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:34:52 PM
T.R. Reid, Correspondent, The Washington Post; Commentator, National Public Radio; Author, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
For 100 years, U.S. presidents have unsuccessfully strived to provide universal health coverage. When LBJ created Medicare in 1965, he thought the program would gradually be extended – to people over 60, then 55, then 45, etc., so that everybody would have government health insurance by 2000. Decades later, the Clinton plan failed. George W. Bush created Medicare Part D. Barack Obama says we have the best chance ever this year to fix our health-care system. Is he right? Reid weighs in and reveals what we can learn from health-care models across the globe.
This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on September 14, 2009.
A very good listen. Excellent tid bits about health promotion in Britain, insights into the minds of Canadians and more!
Monday, November 2, 2009
T.R. Reid: Can We Really Fix U.S. Health Care?
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