Here's a real paradox. Business groups have complained for years about the
soaring cost of health care, but they've been lukewarm about much of the
reform plans now in Congress.
Most participants in the health care debate support electronic medical
records. They'll save money that can be spent on other things and the
computerized records will reduce medical errors.
A joint report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural
Resources Defense Council argues that national parks in the Southwest such
as Zion National Park and the Lake Mead Recreation Area. We talk with
Founder and President of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization Steven
Saunders about the report's findings.
Architecture critic Alan Hess is visiting Las Vegas to lecture on the
classic modernist style of the city. He joins us ahead of his talk to give
his view on the past and future of Las Vegas architecture.
In our continuing series "Hope at Home: Facing the Foreclosure Crisis," we
look this week at what some neighborhoods are doing to prevent blight and
decay as "For Sale" and "Foreclosure" signs proliferate in many areas of the
valley. A neighborhood preservation expert from the city of North Las Vegas
and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department talk about what residents
can do to protect their neighborhoods.
What are they really thinking? We invite a very diverse group of Las
Vegans into the studio to give us a piece of their minds about the economy, health care reform and whatever else comes up in the conversation. Actress
and singer Carol Linnea Johnson, Journalist Jack Sheehan, Reporter Michelle
Booth of El Tiempo and Novelist and Fighter Wrath James White are here to give us their plain-speaking views.
The world-renowned research institute, the Cleveland Clinic, is moving west. It already operates the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and now the group will build a branch in Las Vegas at Symphony Park.
The health care debate has created ugly rhetoric about the government
creating death panels about who should live and die. But how are those end of life decisions made now? Who makes the decision? What issues do doctors focus on in telling the patient and his or her family when further medical
intervention is pointless? And what options are there to ease the pain or
even speed up an inevitable death? We ask those questions of Dr.
Daniel Gross has argued in recent weeks that the health care debate is
hypocritical. Why? Too many people who benefit from government care are
saying that it will destroy American medicine.
The health care debate has created ugly rhetoric about the government
creating death panels about who should live and die. But how are those end of life decisions made now? Who makes the decision? What issues do doctors focus on in telling the patient and his or her family when further medical
intervention is pointless? And what options are there to ease the pain or
even speed up an inevitable death? We ask those questions of Dr.
Abortion providers are murdered in the Midwest and some states have no
providers at all. Is "choice" becoming meaningless by attrition? And where will long-time health care providers like Planned Parenthood stand under the proposed reforms.
University Medical Center could find itself as part of a public option.
Certainly things will change if the federal government changes the health
insurance system.
High-Speed rail projects are being planned to run from Southern California.
But what makes them greener than I-15? And how do they work? UNLV
transportation experts Pushkin Kachroo and Tom Piechota help us understand
the pros and cons of high-speed trains.
Dr. John Ruckdeschel is a leading researcher on lung cancer and led the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit before taking up the reins at the
Nevada Cancer Institute, where he's now chief executive officer.
First, President Barack Obama will be outlining his health care reform plans tonight but what will they mean for Southern Nevada? Professor Chris Cochrane of
UNLV joins us to explain what would happen in Southern Nevada if the
President's plan is enacted.
Then, Hispanics played a large part in the 2008 presidential election.
Even as politicians have danced around the issue, one man has become an outspoken advocate for a public option in health care reform. Strangely, he spent a lifetime working for a major insurance company.
Author Robert Glennon says we're spoiled when it comes to water. We need to
rethink the uses and abuses of this resource that could become the single
biggest issue in the West.
When fully built, the Mountain's Edge community is supposed to have a total of 6 parks. But the master-planned communities developers, Focus Property Group, wants to scale back some of those plans due to the economic downturn.
The Culinary Union has long prided itself on having one of the best health insurance schemes in the valley. But will the casinos continue to pay the costs? Will it continue to keep wages flat for hotel workers? How will it
look if the Congress enacts health care reform.
A new report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology says as many as 90,000 people could die next winter from the swine flu. And as many as 300,000 people could require hospitalization.
