America’s Collision Course With The Debt Ceiling
As the nation counts down to default, Diane talks to longtime Congress watcher Norm Ornstein about the debt limit negotiations, what's at stake and whether he sees a way forward.
Different visions of what health care reform should like in the United States, and what it would take to achieve them.
Guests
- Gail Wilensky Economist, senior fellow at Project HOPE; former administrator of Medicare and Medicaid and health policy adviser in the George. H.W. Bush Administration.
- Dr. David Himmelstein Primary care doctor; co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program; associate professor of medicine at Harvard University
- Dr. Denis Cortese CEO and president, Mayo Clinic; medical director of the Mayo Clinic's Health Policy Center, pulmonary medicine specialist
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