December 19, 2009

Segments 1 & 2: Single payer healthcare

Dr. Geoff Clark, retired medical doctor who practiced in New Hampshire for over 30 years, will tell us why he thinks “single payer” is still the best system for America. With feeling! And perhaps shed some light on why the American Medical Association is against it, what other things they’ve been against, and where the heck we go from here!

The following links were provided by Dr. Clark:

Worldwide statistics on health:

Infoplease – Health and Social Statistics

World Health Organization – Health Statistics and health information systems

Polls of doctors on Single Payer Healthcare that show broad support:

Western PA Coalition for Single-Payer Healthcare (numerous polls, including Kaiser Health, Time Magazine, Grove Insight Opinion Research, New York Times/CBS News)

New Hampshire Medical Society: Two thirds of New Hampshire physicians, including 81% of primary care clinicians, indicated they

If you haven’t lived it you can’t imagine….

Poll Reveals Trauma of Joblessness in U.S.

More than half of the nation

December 12, 2009

Climate change

Outside the United States, the world is pretty much on board with the notion that the climate is changing in profound ways and that human activity is partially the cause. Within the United States however, there is a stubborn minority who believe it is all hype, or a natural occurrence, or a conspiracy by scientists, politicians, environmentalists and other overt and covert liberals. They reject the notion that there is a scientific consensus, they believe the insurance companies’ risk assessments with which they price their products are simply jumping on the bandwagon, and so forth. We look at the scientific consensus and what the skeptics have to say about them, and also pose few questions from a Green IQ test we stumbled upon.

We’re joined by Brenda Ekwurzel, Federal Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists.

The unlucky

We get an update on how things are going at the Somerville Homeless Coalition from Mark Alston-Follansbee, Executive Director.

From the Pew Center on Global Climate Change:

This Thanksgiving, I

Jared Diamond makes the case that some businesses have become among the world

December 5, 2009

US Senate Race for Ted Kennedy’s seat

Joining us:

David S Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix

Tony Schinella of Politizine.com

and:

Bill Clinton speaks to New Hampshire Democrats

President Obama’s Afghanistan policies

Podcast

How each Democratic candidate would govern.

Is it an old-boy network?

And this contribution by Alex Beam certainly ‘elevates’ the conversation by focusing on Martha Coakley’s attractiveness.