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1. WomenMatter - Facts and Trade-Offs - Medicare Prescription Medicine - Who Should Care? A huge change. What does it really do? How did it happen? How to decide what you think about the plan and how to make your judgement matter. (0:58:15)
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2. Intro to Medicare Prescription Medicines - Who Should Care? Dr. Bauer and health care expert Susan Sargent take apart the impact of the new prescription medicine program and show how dramatically it shifts the philosophy, practice, and promises of Medicare we have known from QUALITY and ACCESS to CHOICE and COST. Where do our taxes go? (0:12:59)
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3. Interview with Cheryl Matheis, Director of Social Impact for American Association of Retired People (AARP). Why is the new program an experiment in Choice and Cost? How and why did AARP sign onto the politics of the Republican program and now why are they asking for changes? The major burden on education of the patient to prevent expensive hospitalization. (0:13:43)
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4. Interview with neighborhood family pharmacist Fred Weissberger. What do patients really need to know? Is this new program a better deal? Who gets paid and how? (0:11:17)
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5. Interview with Gerald Phelan, MD, Geriatric specialist, talks about the seriousness of the change and the critical role of the doctor in judging what is best for each patient. (0:10:41)
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6. Dr. Bauer and Susan Sargent spotlight the Trade Offs in the Medicare Prescription medicine programs. The shift from protecting everyone with tax dollars to individual responsibility for oneself. Particularly the huge responsibility of each person to learn the details, choose, and then work to stay healthy or save up to pay for getting sick in the "doughnut hole". The cost in tax dollars to shift to private corporations. (0:09.34)
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Read about Medicare and it's history:
Timeline of the Political History of Medicare
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