Today on FTP:
4-5: Former Logan mayor Doug Thompson will be joining me as a guest host today and in the first hour we will talk with his son Marshall Thompson, an Iraq War veteran, about the official end of the war. What can be learned from our adventure in Iraq and can anything positive result?
5-6: In the second hour we will be joined by Bracken Longhurst for an in-depth discussion of health care policy in the U.S. Bracken recently published a paper in the Nevada Law review on the possibilities of Health Care Exchanges as an amendment or replacement for Obamacare. From the abstract of Bracken’s paper:
“Health care exchanges would combine a health insurance exchange with a similar health provider exchange and reward consumers that focus on value. Exchanges would fix the health care system and deliver the major commitments and goals of proponents and opponents of PPACA, namely: 1) lower overall health care costs; 2) lower health insurance premiums; 3) increase the number of people covered by adequate health insurance; 4) remove the pre-existing conditions barrier to adequate health insurance for nearly all individuals; and 5) allow individuals to keep the doctor and health insurance plan of their choice. ”
Doug will provide his expert analysis as former executive director of the Logan Regional Hospital Foundation. I will mostly take notes.
It’s a solid day of policy on this holiday week edition of For The People!
Programming note: we will push FTP Quickfire to tomorrow when Jason and Jonathan will rejoin me in studio.
