The politics of health: preventative care, policy changes & recriminations
The cancer of Politics in healthcare
Politics and health care is a messy combination, as already evidenced by months of debate over health care reform in Washington; but events of the past week have further muddied the reform waters as recommended changes in screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer in women have led to political recriminations. How would a hypothetical “public option” handle the changes in mammograms; are the recommended limitations on pap smears the first sign of feared government rationing of healthcare? We apply these real world examples to the proposed reform legislation in front of Congress.
Guest:
Elizabeth McGlynn, Associate Director of RAND Health; Distinguished Chair in Health Quality and Senior Principal Researcher at RAND
- Patt Morrison for November 20, 2009
- Women advised to undergo fewer Pap screenings
- The politics of health: preventative care, policy changes & recriminations
- Pay more, pollute more? The problem with carbon off-sets
- Gross negligence: the U.S. government’s liability for failed levees
- White House interference in Kevin Johnson case?
- OBAMANOS!
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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