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Playlist: Health Reform

Compiled By: PRX Editors

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PRX Editors' curated collection about health care and the impending heath care reform legislation.

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Affordable Care Act Special Documentary

From Prime Time Radio | 00:59:55

Prime Time Radio presents this special to clear up some of the confusion, misinformation and disinformation surrounding the bill.

HUMANKIND: Universal Health Care

From David Freudberg | 01:00:30

A Cambridge couple, both MDs and Harvard Medical faculty, have devoted their lives to researching and advocating universal health care. Provocative.

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Obama Press Conference - Health Reform, Racial Profiling July 22, 2009

From Paul Brandus | 00:55:09

President Obama addresses health insurance reform and racial profiling.

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Body Politics: A History of Health Care

From BackStory with the American History Guys | 00:54:00

Recent fights about health care reform have landed several people in the hospital. So who foots the bill? Historically, what's been the government's role in keeping Americans healthy?

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Heartland Medicine

From Helen Borten | Part of the A Sense of Place series | 00:28:57

Young doctors face challenges, provide total care, and live unconventional lives in rural Nebraska.


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Overtreatment: How health care makes us sick

From Nathanael Johnson | 00:08:58

The health-care debate is focused on quantity: how many people – and how much care they will get. But perhaps quality, rather than quantity of care, is more important.

Health Reform Part 1 -- How Massachusetts' health reform was passed

From Karen Brown | Part of the Health Reform in Massachusetts series | 00:05:40

A look back at how Massachusetts' landmark health care law was passed -- setting the stage, making compromises, moving forward. See all three pieces in the series!

A Crisis in Primary Care -- the Massachusetts Health Care Experiment

From Karen Brown | 00:05:38

Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there’s an unintended consequence: A sudden demand for primary care doctors has outpaced the supply.

Healthcare and the Death of David

From nancy foote | 00:05:51

The uninsured not only die, but believe they do not deserve to be healed.


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Insurance Scams in Massachusetts

From Karen Brown | 00:03:31

An unfortunate byproduct of the health insurance mandate in Massachusetts -- the marketing of health plans that don't add up.

Mental Health Latest Target of State Budget Cuts

From Grace Hood | 00:04:31

As state governments cut their budgets amid the national recession, funding for the uninsured or under insured with mental illness has become a recent target.

Healthcare in America

From Robert Karl Skoglund | 00:04:29

The company asked me to sign a release so they could bill my insurance company $220 for something one can buy on line for $19.95.

Artists Get a Piece of Mass Health Reform

From Karen Brown | 00:03:52

Artists and writers are among the new demographic getting free or subsidized health care under Massachusetts health reform. They say it allows them to contribute more freely to the "creative economy."


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