NPR Examines Health Care Programs in San Francisco, Massachusetts, Elsewhere
NPR's "Justice Talking" on Monday reported on several issues related to health care for an episode titled, "Is There a Right to Health Care?" Summaries of the segments appear below. Audio of the segments is available online.
- "San Francisco's Experiment With Universal Health Care": The segment examines a San Francisco universal health care program, Healthy San Francisco (Corneli, "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
- "Taking Massachusetts' Temperature": The segment includes a discussion with John Holahan, director of the Health Policy Research Center at the Urban Institute, about the Massachusetts health insurance law (Adler [1], "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
- "Debate: Is Health Care a Right?": The segment includes a discussion about whether U.S. residents should have a right to health care featuring Russell Roberts -- an author, professor of economics at George Mason University and research fellow at the Hoover Institution -- and Quentin Young -- an internist, clinical professor at the University of Illinois Medical Center, founder and chair of Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (Adler [2], "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
- "Improving Mental Health Care for Children": The segment examines a Massachusetts law that requires pediatricians to screen children for mental health problems (Brown, "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
- "Guerilla Health Care": The segment includes a discussion with Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, about the organization, which provides health care to the uninsured at no cost (Adler [3], "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
- "What About Dental?": The segment includes a discussion with Burton Edelstein, a professor of dentistry and health policy at Columbia University and a member of the board of the Children's Dental Health Project, about the relationship between dental care and overall health (Adler [4], "Justice Talking," NPR, 3/17).
