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Can Health Care Reform Succeed This Time?

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June 19, 2009

Health care reform officially began in Washington this week, and lawmakers have been hashing out the painful trade-offs of a bipartisan plan. Guest host Paul Raeburn talks with experts about the economic and medical realities of improving care and coverage at lower costs.

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Mara Liasson, national political correspondent, National Public Radio, Washington, DC

Michael Pramenko, family physician, member, Colorado Medical Society's Health Care Congress, Grand Junction, Colo.

Jonathan Gruber, board member, Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector, economics professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

James Rohack, president, American Medical Association, cardiologist, Scott and White Healthcare, Temple, Texas

 
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