June 28 – Roberts Redeems The Supreme Court; The Affordable Care Act’s Impact On Women and Children; Health Care Reform At Last!; Protesting The Wal-Martization of America

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the Supreme Court’s unexpected ruling upholding Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. First John Dean joins us to discuss the legal reasoning behind the Court’s 5 to 4 decision. He is the former Counsel to President Nixon, and was chief Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

Part 2

Then Dr. Susan Wood joins us to discuss what the Affordable Care Act means for women and children, who would have suffered most of the impact of its repeal. She is a Professor of Health Policy and Executive Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

Part 3

Then we hear from Paul Starr who is a Pulitzer-Prize winning Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and was a Senior Advisor to the Clinton health plan and is the author of “Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar Struggle Over Health Care Reform”. We discuss how the Affordable Care Act will be enacted in the face of Republican resistance and Mitt Romney’s vow to repeal it on his first day in office.

Part 4