Rep. Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

Representative Pallone of New Jersey is currently serving his 10th term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has long been recognized as a leader on health issues such as expanding health care access and affordability, and protecting the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Rep. Pallone currently chairs the Subcommittee on Health, in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Jen Tolbert

Kaiser Family Foundation

As Principal Policy Analyst on Medicaid and the Uninsured at the Kaiser Commission, Jen Tolbert provides information and analysis on health coverage issues for low-income people. She tracks state coverage initiatives, provider issues, and Medicaid financing.

Julie Barnes

New America Foundation

Julie Barnes brings an extensive background in health litigation to her position as Deputy Director of the Health Care Policy Program at the New America Foundation. As the head of the Health Care Reform Communication Project, Ms. Barnes strives to educate industry stakeholders and policymakers about health care reform.

Kathryn Serkes

Head of Policy and Government Affairs, Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

For more than 15 years, Kathryn Serkes has served as policy and public affairs counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She sits on the Health and Human Services Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and is founder of the Doctor-Patient Medical Association, a patient advocate group. 

Ceci Connolly

Journalist Ceci Connolly has been covering healthcare and national politics for the Washington Post for more than ten years. As the national health policy correspondent she has reported on bioterrorism, Medicare, the increasing cost of medical coverage, and controversial subjects such as stem cell research and the Terry Schiavo case. 

• More money, more problems – An AARP study on the rising cost of health care and the plunging amount of coverage

• Arlington Free Clinic - An example of a setting where those who can’t afford to be treated elsewhere can get care
  

• A new international study shows that Americans are forgoing medical care in great numbers:

• The face of the “under cared” nation

• Kaiser Family Foundation

• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

• The New America Foundation's website

• Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)

• Washington post article by Ceci Connolly on the subject of today’s show

• On AARP's Prime Time Radio Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) discuss their “Healthy Americans Act”
  

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