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GRITtv: Health Care: Fight's Just Starting
The House of Representatives, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, passed historic health care reform late Sunday night. That's a fact. Also a fact is that the bill is far from perfect, and legislators from all sides will be working to shape the bill more to their liking. Progressives regret the lack of a public option, let alone single payer, and the use of women's reproductive choice as a political football in the negotiations--Obama was forced into an executive order reaffirming the Hyde Amendment's commitment not to use federal dollars for abortions. But what does it all mean? Will the protests die down, or just get worse? What can we do to get REAL change we can believe in, with a country this polarized? Laura asks Chip Berlet, an expert on right-wing populism and senior analyst with Political Research Associates, and Nina Agrawal, pediatrician and director of community outreach with the National Physicians Alliance.
Email this pageGRITtv: Reclaiming the Healthcare Battle
August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform--public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what's the message? Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Maggie Mahar, the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be done to win the healthcare war.
GRITtv: September 1, 2009
August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform—public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what’s the message?
Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Maggie Mahar, the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be done to win the healthcare war.
