Summary: Today on the program we look at why people in the US continue to pay more for health care that any other industrialized county. Annually tens of thousands die from lack of care and Obama is now proposing cuts in Medicare. We first interview Dr. David Himmelstein is professor in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. During the second half of the show we will talk to Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician from Baltimore who served as congressional fellow for PNH
