ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED
I've been reading everybody's comments WRT Healthcare Reform... and as good as everybody's ideas are... as good as your arguments are.... as sincere as you all seem to be... I keep feeling that we are either missing something substantial, OR perhaps all the various threads are so spread out and fragmented that I can't make sense of it all...
PLEASE!!!! Take the time to listen to (or read) the following! I heard this over the weekend and found it to be the absolute BEST coverage of the subject.
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THIS AMERICAN LIFE is a very intelligently written and produced Radio Show found on Public Radio... It's also available for podcast download, etc...
This weekend (and Next) they focused on HEALTH CARE.
MIND BLOWINGLY Informative.
I can't recommend it enough if you want to get a much, much, MUCH better explanation and understanding of what the hell is going on!
Check it out. You won't be sorry.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1320
PLEASE!!!! Take the time to listen to (or read) the following! I heard this over the weekend and found it to be the absolute BEST coverage of the subject.
_________________________________
THIS AMERICAN LIFE is a very intelligently written and produced Radio Show found on Public Radio... It's also available for podcast download, etc...
This weekend (and Next) they focused on HEALTH CARE.
MIND BLOWINGLY Informative.
I can't recommend it enough if you want to get a much, much, MUCH better explanation and understanding of what the hell is going on!
Check it out. You won't be sorry.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1320
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It'll take about an hour to listen to it all... I understand that most of us are unlikely to be able to take the time to do that right now.... But the website lists the various segments and their respective times... So you can pick an choose and hit pause... etc...
In any case... I hope we can learn something from this excellent work.
October 13, 2009 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I heard parts of it while driving this weekend. This American Life has a very measured delivery. A few sentences of intro, some background music, some testimony, more music, reflection and commentary on the testimony, etc. Other programs would probably cover the same info in 15 minutes, but TAL seem to feel the interludes give you time to think and absorb the story.
October 13, 2009 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
And I tend to agree with them. When I'm studying something I tend to read a bit... then mull it over and make sure I understand what I just read before moving on... When I really want to understand something, I find it useful to take a moment every now and then to think about what's going on.
October 13, 2009 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink