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National Institutes of Health; author, “Prescription for the Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations.”

Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health; Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System; former chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center

FROM Ezekiel Emanuel

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

A prescription for improving U.S. healthcare Will Congress repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act? Will it collapse, as President Trump warns? Dr. Zeke Emanuel says that what’s happening in Washington is just a sideshow. What really matters is that healthcare in America is still too expensive and doesn’t work well enough. Emanuel was an adviser to President Obama in the creation of the Affordable Care Act. He’s written a new book with ideas on how to fix healthcare.

14 MIN, 26 SEC Jun 06, 2017

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Ezekiel Emanuel on the Rise of Superbugs There’s a lot of concern these days about antibiotics, and whether they’re losing effectiveness. Yesterday, L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said four patients there have been infected with a superbug. That’s an antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can cause deadly infections. Sixty-eight more people may have been exposed. The news came on the heels of a similar outbreak at UCLA, where two people died and up to 180 patients might’ve been exposed. Some 23,000 people die every year from superbug infections. So what’s behind this problem, and can we do anything about it?

13 MIN, 26 SEC Mar 05, 2015

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

“Why I Hope to Die at 75” How long would you want to live if you had a choice? For most people, the answer is probably as long as possible. But not for Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. He’s director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health. He recently wrote an essay for The Atlantic titled, “ Why I Hope to Die at 75 .”

8 MIN, 40 SEC Sep 30, 2014

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Not Your Grandfather's Health Care System Here in California, you have until the end of the month to sign up for a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act. Our guest says because of the new law, there will be some major changes coming in the way health care is delivered. For example, there might not be any more health insurance companies in 10 years.

9 MIN, 54 SEC Mar 06, 2014

Michael Moore, Insurance Companies and 'Socialized Medicine'

Michael Moore, Insurance Companies and 'Socialized Medicine' Michael Moore 's latest film Sicko dramatizes the sometimes deadly shortcomings of America's health care system. When people who have insurance are denied payment by a profit-oriented bureaucracy, they either pay the bills and go bankrupt or go without medical treatment that could save their lives. Sicko advocates abolishing insurance companies and regulating the drug industry. It also embraces a Canadian-style, government-run health care system, the kind that advocates of the status quo denounce as "socialized medicine."

35 MIN, 12 SEC Jun 22, 2007

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