Every week, the Insurance Podcast Roundup brings you new, and useful, episodes of podcasts that focus on insurance related issues. It is important to keep informed about what is going on with insurance, because it will affect you and your family.
NPR has an episode of “Morning Edition” that was released on December 8, 2011. This episode is called “Houston’s Health Clinics Struggle to Meet Demand”.
This episode focuses on a study that has documented the increasing number of patients that are turning to free public clinics in Houston. There is concern that there will be another increase of people doing this after the Affordable Care Act takes affect.
NPR has another episode of “Morning Edition” that was released on December 8, 2011. This episode is called “When ‘Critical Access Hospitals’ Aren’t So Critical”.
This episode talks about the potential for the federal government to cut down on the number of critical access hospitals as a way to reduce the deficit. It discusses how those cuts would affect the people who are currently using these types of hospitals, as well as the reasoning behind the potential cuts.
NPR has an episode of “All Things Considered” that was released on December 8, 2011. This episode is called “Obama Slams GOP For Blocking Consumer Nominee”.
This episode discusses a news conference where President Obama criticized the Senate Republicans for blocking his nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He also talked about a proposed extension to unemployment insurance benefits.
NPR has an episode of “All Things Considered” that was released on December 2, 2011. This episode is called “Siri’s Position on Abortion? A Glitch, Not Conspiracy, Apple Says”.
Siri is the name of the new artificially intelligent personal assistant from Apple. You verbally ask Siri a question, and she answers it verbally and in text. People have noticed that when you ask Siri to locate a health clinic that can provide abortions, Siri instead locates pregnancy crisis centers, (that do not do abortions, and that dissuade women from having abortions). It turns out that the reason for this is because the pregnancy crisis centers use the word “abortion” on their websites much more frequently than the clinics do.
The Covert Rationing Blog has an episode that was released on December 12, 2011. This episode is called “Why Crying Doctors are a Good Fit For Obamacare”. In this episode, Dr. Rich shares his opinions about the changes in the doctor-patient relationship.
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