Health Reform Videos

When Medicare Advantage Plans Do Not Renew Their Contracts This month on Medicare Minutes we offer advice to those beneficiaries whose private Medicare plans have chosen to leave the Medicare market.  We discuss what these individuals need to do, and the rights they have. For more on Private Medicare plans, see our Medicare Privatization (and Occasional Reform) page.

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The Senate Finance Committee pushed through a bill with bipartisan support--if you call one senator from Maine bipartisan support. Meanwhile, the House and the rest of the Senate bills still contain a public option, so the question is: how far left can the Finance bill be pulled?On our roundtable, we have Paul Waldman from The American Prospect, Adam Thompson from the Progressive States Network, Representative Raul Grijalva, co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and Sharon Lerner, contributor to The Nation and author of The War On Moms: Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation.

The last health care reform bill is out of committee and now it's up to all of Congress to reconcile the many bills floating around into one piece of legislation to be voted on and--hopefully--signed into law. But there are many questions left to answer before the process is over, including the one most important to progressives: will the bill contain a strong public option? On our roundtable, we have Paul Waldman from The American Prospect, Adam Thompson from the Progressive States Network, Representative Raul Grijalva, co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and Sharon Lerner, contributor to The Nation and author of The War On Moms: Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation. They discuss the many options for the public option, including the new suggestion of an opt-out provision that would let states choose not to take part in a public health care plan. Will Blue Dogs really vote against their own party? And will conservative Senate Democrats really support a Republican filibuster? Are triggers or opt-outs worse as public option compromises? Our guests try to answer.

President of the Alliance For Retired Americans speaks to packed house in Palm Beach County, and proves that Seniors are Ready To Rumble For Health Reform. Distributed by Tubemogul.

BusinessWeek's weekly podcast features the magazine's writers and editors recapping the week's top business and economic stories, as well as taking an advance look at the most important economic news expected in the week ahead