WAMC: 51% Show # 1053 (2009-09-17)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 1053

(2009-09-17)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - The battle over health care reform has dominated the summer's news - except for long spells where we heard about the economy or Michael Jackson. But how much of what we hear is fact and how much is hyperbole? Judith Stein knows how government handles a health care program and she sees it from the inside. She's the founder of The Center for Medicare Advocacy, a national legal aid society to help seniors fight to get the services they need from the government health care system. And you may be surprised to learn she thinks the government does a great job.

9:06 Stein

Judith Stein is the founder of The Center for Medicare Advocacy. For more information, visit their website at medicareadvocacy.org.

If you have children, you know that antibiotics aren't handed out as regularly as they once were. There's a reason. Years of prescribing antibiotics as the first line of defense have helped create mutated bugs that scoff at medication that once killed them dead. And those bacteria are also proliferating in our food supply as factory farms use antibiotics as a substitute for health living conditions for the animals raised for slaughter. Laura Rogers is project director for the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming.

5:30 Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers is project director for the Pew Campaign for Human Health and Industrial Farming. For more information, go to saveantibiotics.org

Finally, a classic film about an iconic literary heroine is seventy years old this year. Scarlett O'Hara may have been a maneater, but she was a survivor, too. Katie Britton looks at how Scarlett, and the woman who created her, fit in the modern view of women.

5:52 Frankly my dear Britton

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