Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on states that can serve as models for health-care reform implementation. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Gov. Bill Ritter about his state’s efforts over the past four years to extend coverage and contain costs, and how federal health reform aligns with these efforts.
Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on National Nurses Week, the role nursing played in health reform, and the challenges ahead. ANA President Rebecca Patton speaks with Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter about the opportunities for nursing and the country to achieve the goals of the health reform legislation.
Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the future of health care in the context of national reform. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, about leading the way forward.
Conversations on Health Care® focuses on an important and timely topic in health care: providing immigrants with access to quality health care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Danielle Ofri, a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, and author of the new book Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients.
Conversations on Health Care® turns its focus to the future challenges now that reform has passed. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Stuart Altman, a leading health-care economist and professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, about the potential for reform to deliver on its goals.
Conversations on Health Care® speaks with the president-elect of the American Medical Association. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk to Dr. Cecil Wilson about why the AMA supported this health reform legislation, and what it will do to improve health care for both patients and their providers.