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Health Care in Developed Countries

T. R. Reid explores health care in developed countries and how that compares to heath care in the U.S.

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Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors’ offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

Reid is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post — in whose pages he recently addressed five major myths about other countries’ health-care systems — and the former chief of the paper’s London and Tokyo bureaus.

Reid was the lead correspondent for the 2008 Frontline documentary Sick Around the World, which examined five other capitalist democracies, looking for lessons on health-care delivery. His books include Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West and The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.

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Sunscreen: Is SPF 70 better than SPF 50?

In short, yes. To learn more listen to the interview.

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According to the National Cancer Institute, the number of people who have developed melanoma has more than doubled over the past 30 years. Dermatologist Darrell Rigel joins Fresh Air to explain the sun’s effects on the skin, what “SPF” means and why skin cancer rates are going up.

A clinical professor at New York University Medical Center, Rigel has tested sunscreen efficacy for Johnson & Johnson and the Procter & Gamble Company. He is the lead editor of Cancer of the Skin, the major textbook in his field. Rigel maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

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Obama the Uppity President

A lot of hay has been made of Obama saying “I” a lot in his speeches. Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg takes the hay makers, particularly two of them, to task. For those who love words, this is an enjoyable podcast.

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The Internet makes everybody a linguist, the same way it turns us all into medical diagnosticians and tracers of lost persons. Counting words has become a favorite way to track a trend, uncover a hidden meaning or cut a long text down to size. So, when the House Democrats 1,900-page health care bill was published, critics on all sides took the counting of its words, whether that actually meant something or not.
And opponents of the bill try to distill it to its coercive essence by noting that the word shall appeared in it over 3,000 times.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
Clinton and the two Bushs all used first-person pronouns anywhere from 50 to 70 percent more often than Obama
If youre convinced that Obama is uppity or arrogant, youre going to fix on every pronoun that seems to confirm that opinion. But you cant help thinking that theres a measure of projection here as well.Read more at www.npr.org
 

The War Not Lost

A very interesting interview with Thomas Ricks on the Iraq War, discussing its failures, its successes and why.  The interview gives new insight into a war that may not be winnable, but now seems to be on the verge of not being lost.

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Thomas Ricks has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting. Penguin Press

 
 

Fresh Air from WHYY, February 10, 2009 · Washington Post special military correspondent Thomas E. Ricks predicts that the war in Iraq is likely to last at least another five to 10 years. His new book, The Gamble, focuses on General David Petraeus’ role in the conflict and reveals disagreements between top commanders in the US military.

Ricks has written several books about the US military, including Fiasco and Making the Corps. He has covered military issues for The Washington Post since 2000. Before that, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 17 years.

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