Immediate Past President, American Medical Association
Immediate Past President of the American Medical Association
PROFILE
Nancy Nielsen
Guest
FROM Nancy Nielsen
Which Way, L.A.?
Healthcare Reform: Is the President Doing It Right…or Not? Since President Harry Truman introduced the idea 60 years ago, the American Medical Association has opposed every effort at a government overhaul of the healthcare system. This year, the AMA is helping to run TV ads favoring healthcare reform, along with Big Pharma , Families USA and the Service Employees International Union.
To the Point
Healthcare Reform: Is the President Doing It Right…or Not? Conventional wisdom has it that healthcare reform is in big trouble, especially with conservative, "Blue Dog" Democrats worried about next year's elections. But big Pharma 's on board and the American Medical Association , after 60 years of denouncing government plans as "socialized medicine." Are White House tactics paying off after all? What did those special interests get for their support? What did they give up? Will it all add up to cost control? We talk to the doctors and others.
To the Point
The Politics and Economics of Medicare There will be no vacation from political advertising this Fourth of July as the battle over 10% cuts in Medicare reaches a fever pitch. At stake are payments to 600,000 doctors who care for 52 million people, a big percent of the voting population in an election year. Neither Republicans nor Democrats want the cuts to go through, but the Senate failed to prevent them by just one vote. That's pitted the doctors against the insurance industry in an advertising frenzy designed to influence action next week.
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Left, Right & Center
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?