Author and correspondent T.R. Reid discusses the possible real-world ramifications of the pending health care bill. Though the provisions in the bill would outlaw the most reprehensible practices of health...
Author T.R. Reid says that the problem with health care in America isn't the quality of the service, but the lack of availability to millions. Reid tells of a young...
Author T.R. Reid discusses health care in Massachusetts, where 98 percent of residents are covered but costs remain high. He believes the issue may benefit from a new leader aside...
In this special, author T.R. Reid takes the pulse of health care systems around the globe and writes a prescription for America based on his observations.
Controversial libertarian law professor Richard Epstein discusses the ethical and financial quandary of costly end-of-life care. He argues that money commonly spent on those at or near their life expectancy...
Linguistics professor and author George Lakoff explains how Democrats in the U.S. are failing to sell health care reform by relying on the policy issues alone. Democrats, he says, are...
Michael Pollan discusses Michelle Obama's "really amazing speech" calling for reform of the U.S. food system with fellow author on food and urban farming, Novella Carpenter. Pollan says, "The way...
(September 27, 2007) With new life expectancy statistics coming out, should the US be living it up or living it down? Today, 46% of Americans have no health insurance...
