Healthcare in Canada

The Takeaway discusses the merits and shortcomings of the health care reform bill with Harvard professor Theda Skocpol. Hanging over the discussion, a larger question looms: is there a problem with the mechanics of how a bill becomes a law?

Our Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, joins us to do some fact checking on health care reform and Medicare-cost claims from both sides of the Congressional aisle.

A large part of the health care debate is about the numbers. To help figure out what health care would cost for both the average citizen and the U.S. government, The Takeaway talks to David Herzenhorn, congressional reporter for The New York Times.

President Obama’s health care reform seeks to cut costs but keep quality care. The Takeaway turns to Elliott Fisher, professor and director Dartmouth’s Center for Health Policy Research, who thinks low cost and high quality are not mutually exclusive.

Many African nations are experiencing a medical brain drain, thousands of their doctors and nurses are actively recruited to leave and work in the West; Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Dr. Edward Mills