NC SPIN episode #997 - Air Date 12/10/2017
Published December 8, 2017
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NC SPIN #997 is dedicated entirely to healthcare and was recorded at the Winter Meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians in Asheville.
Topics:
How healthy is North Carolina?
Medicaid Reform
NC Opioid Crisis
Rural healthcare
Panelists:
Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Greg Murphy, NC House of Representatives
Dr. Mark Stacy, Dean, Brody School of Medicine at ECU
Dr. Mary Hall, Carolinas Healthcare Center, Charlotte
Dr. Shannon Dowler, Family Physician and Mission Health
Tom Campbell, Moderator
December 10, 2017 at 8:24 am
CD Watts says:
Good show . . . One of the great things about it was that it was not totally driven by political posturing. Maybe your show should make more efforts to be substantively focused instead of the political party focus that it typically has. It was also good to have some gender diversity. However, the health care issue is not a white only issue. Given the disparity in health outcomes along race and ethnicity line makes it pretty stunning that in a panel of 5 folks you could not find a way to include Black and Latino folks in the discussion. This is typical for the show so I should not be surprised.
December 11, 2017 at 9:33 am
Robert Randall says:
No balance here. The panel was stacked with liberals who circumvent our constitution and state that healthcare is a right. They fail to recognize that the nation's bloated entitlement program is already unsustainable. To them, money grows on trees.
The opioid crisis is mainly caused be people wanting to get high. Nothing new here. Hard for me to be sympathetic and spend money on those who make dumb choices.
