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A collection of reports by KQED Radio productions, including KQED Radio News, The California Report and Forum. Reports are listed in reverse chronological order.
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Forum | Fri, Feb 26 2010, 9:00 AM
The Health Care Summit
We get response and analysis to Thursday's televised bipartisan health care summit in Washington.
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NPR News | Thu, Feb 25 2010, 6:00 PM
Special Broadcast: Health Care Summit Wrap-Up
Host Linda Wertheimer and guests discuss President Obama's health care summit. On Thursday, February 25, the president hosted an open-ended meeting of elected officials and representatives of the health care community in an effort to re-start the debate on overhauling the nation's health care system. This special program from NPR News reviews the highlights and outcome of the meeting. Joining Linda Wertheimer is NPR's health policy correspondent Julie Rovner, White House correspondent Scott Horsley and senior Washington editor Ron Elving.
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The California Report | Thu, Feb 25 2010, 8:50 AM
Sour Notes at Anthem Hearing
Los Angeles Democrat Henry Waxman confronted executives from Anthem Blue Cross and its parent WellPoint yesterday at a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. Anthem has proposed hiking premiums for individual policy holders in California by as much as 39 percent, landing the firm at the center of debate about the state of health care coverage in America.
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Forum | Tue, Feb 2 2010, 9:00 AM
2011 U.S. Budget
President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year starting October 1st includes cutting spending on federal programs and raising $2 trillion in taxes. And it still foresees a major healthcare overhaul. We look at how the proposed budget might affect California.
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The California Report | Fri, Jan 8 2010, 8:50 AM
Will Interstate Health Policies Meet California Standards?
As Congress works out differences in the House and Senate health care bills, one proposal is drawing fire from the California delegation. The bills would allow insurers to sell some policies across state lines for the first time, and critics contend that could weaken California's consumer protection laws.
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The California Report | Tue, Jan 5 2010, 8:50 AM
Medicaid Expansion Would Cost State
Congressional leaders meet in Washington, D.C. today to begin merging the House and Senate health care overhaul bills. Both would greatly expand Medicaid, the public insurance program for the poor. But states would have to pick up some of the tab, and California may not be prepared to do that.
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Perspectives | Thu, Dec 17 2009, 7:35 AM
From Clunker to Cadillac
When her husband changed jobs, Diana Oertel joined 'the best health care system in the world,' and mammograms that used to be out-of-pocket luxuries became routine.
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Forum | Wed, Dec 16 2009, 9:00 AM
Prospects for Health Care Legislation
Senators hope to get a national health care bill passed before the holidays. But the latest version in the Senate omits two provisions sought by most democrats: a new government-run insurance plan and the expansion of Medicare. We discuss whether we'll have a bill by 2010, and what it might look like.
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The California Report | Tue, Dec 1 2009, 8:50 AM
Finding New Models for Health Care
The health care overhaul bills in Congress don't throw out the "fee for service" model, in which doctors bill more when they order more tests and procedures. But they do include incentives for doctors who form "accountable care organizations" which use a payment model that could save billions of dollars.
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