Enjoy this re-broadcast featuring Dahr Jamail, Scott Horton, and Dr. Paul Hochfeld

At 3:30 Dr Paul Hochfeld
During almost thirty years of practicing emergency medicine in Corvallis, Oregon, I have been increasingly frustrated by the multiple absurdities of our health care system. Because of patient expectations and fear of liability, I order expensive tests for people I wouldn’t order for friends and family. There is no incentive to “do” just enough and untold perverse incentives for caregivers to “do” more and more and more… at great expense, and sometime at harm to those we are suppsedly helping. Uninsured people come to the ER because of difficulties in accessing more appropriate care. Health insurance premiums are rising at 10-20% per year.
The seeds of “Health, Money and Fear” were planted in January of 2007, when I viewed, “Why We Fight”, a 2005 video by Eugene Jarecki. He lucidly documents the growth and influence of our military industrial complex, explaining how the democratic process has been high-jacked by the military lobbyists. Profits for our Military Industry influence Government policy. Health Care is our second largest industry, soon to be number one. The size and power of the health care industry lobby is legendary.
I decided to constructively channel some of my frustrations. The early working title “Our Ailing Health Care: A Physician Explores the Illness”

At 4 PM Scott Horton Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine
We will discuss his article on the continuing cover up and misjustice in the Don Seigelman case.
No Comment (Harper’s Magazine)

at 5 PM Dahr Jamail returns to discuss Iraq’s draw down and the growing dissent within the military ranks regarding the war in Afghamnistan.
‘There Is No Way I Will Deploy to Afghanistan’ — Seeds of Dissent in the U.S. Military Are Growing

Dahr Jamail | US Occupation of Iraq Continues Unabated

“We have passed the June 30 deadline that, according to a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed between US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on November 17, 2008, was the date all US forces were to have been withdrawn from all of Iraq’s cities. Today, however, there are at least 134,000 US soldiers in Iraq – a number barely lower than the number that were there in 2003. The SOFA is a sieve, and the number of US military personnel in Iraq is remaining largely intact for now.”