THE UNINSURED: PBS Documentary Addresses ‘Hot Topic’
PBS explores the issue of the uninsured this month in an hour-long documentary titled "Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk?" Narrated by actress Blythe Danner, the program features interviews with patients, providers and public health experts. Visit http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/ to find out more about the documentary and the uninsured. The site includes in-depth interviews with various health experts, including:
- Sherry Glied, associate professor and head of Columbia University's Division of Health Policy and Management;
- Dr. Marcia Angell, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine;
- Gail Wilensky, chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee and former HCFA administrator;
- Bruce Vladeck, professor of health policy and geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and former HCFA administrator;
- Rosemary Stevens, professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History and Sociology of Science;
- Uwe Reinhardt, commissioner of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured;
- Thomas Murray, chair of the NIH Center for Human Genome Research's Task Force on Genetics and Insurance;
- Haavi Morreim, professor of human values and ethics at the University of Tennessee's College of Medicine and
- David Eddy, senior advisor for health policy and management at Kaiser Permanente.