Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Band Aid Approach To Hemorrhaging Health Care System
Continues To Prevail
with
U.S. Congressman John Conyers
 
The economic crisis has increased the urgency for real health care reform now, yet the President and Congress persist in advocating half measures, ignoring the real problem,  the health insurance industry. But, the voices for comprehensive, meaningful reform like Rep. Conyers, whose legislation HR 676, a single payer or Medicare for all bill continue to be raised.  Rep. Conyers makes the case for health care for all at an event honoring one of the most vocal proponents of single payer, Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator of Healthcare-Now!
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Do You Want To Get Sick To Your Stomach
Then Think About The Cost Of Being Sick In America 
with
Dr. David Himmelstein, primary care physician,
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program

A frightening look at a new Harvard study finds that medical problems contributed to nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies.  Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical problems had health insurance.  Covering the uninsured isn't enough, but unfortunately, Washington politicians seem all too ready to cave in to insurance firms.  We'll also examine the highlights of Sen. Edward Kennedy's draft health care bill, which some say is the most liberal in Congress, and find out if it is. 
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To Download or listen to this 27:13 minute program, 
go to  http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33918
or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalConyersHimmelsteinOnHealthCareForAll                      

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org                                                                    
  
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