Part 3 of 3. Do entary describing the early years of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India. Founded in 1970 by Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole, CRHP provides comprehensive community-based primary health and development services in rural areas of India. CRHP operates a hospital and an international training center for people and organizations interested in primary health care and development.
Visit http://jamkhed.org for more information.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sat down with KCRA 3’s Kevin Riggs on Wednesday to talk about health care reform and several other issues. This is raw video from the interview.

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Between 1994 and 1999, Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, led a dramatic turnaround of the Veterans health care system. Today, in study after study, the VA emerges as an exemplar of best practices in patient safety, disease management, evidence-based medicine, electronic medical records and customer service. Both Senators Clinton and Obama, as well as a number of jounalists and academics, have recently pointed to the VA health care system as a model for national healthcare reform, and a December 2007 Congressional Budget Office interim report suggests VA may offer lessons to other public sector, as well as private sector systems.

But there is a very real danger that the system could unravel due to a confluence of political and financial pressures in the not-distant future. With the enormous federal financial challenges predicted by GAO and CBO for the next decade, what is really needed to treat the hundreds of thousands of new wounded warriors coming to VA hospitals out of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the millions of Vietnam, World War II and other veterans who currently rely on VA healthcare?

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Center for American Progress Director of Health Policy Karen Davenport joined CNBC to debate the future of health care in America and the challenges facing US businesses by rising health costs. 6/12/07

For more of the Center’s work on health policy please see: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/domestic/healthcare

What if everybody had health insurance?
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Bonus Re-Mix footage of MIA’s Bird Flu music video.

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Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita brings the stem cell debate to the forefront and examines the constantly evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries, the controversy of modern science and the courage of people living with devastating disease and injury.

MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita premieres Tuesday, January 15 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS. Hosted by Terrence Howard, the acclaimed series showcases powerful and innovative independent films. Presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS is broadcast on PBS stations nationwide.

Visit the Web site for more: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/stemcell/

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Lori Wightman talks about Senator Coleman’s work to improve access to health care in Minnesota’s rural communities.

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Ithaca, NY singer/songwriter and health care practitioner Will Fudeman wrote this song about the inequities of our health care system and performed it at a concert on May 16, 2008 at Eco-Village in Ithaca. He hopes that people everywhere will listen to it and share it with others.

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William Frist, Lecturer of Public Affairs and Schultz Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; former U.S. Senator (R-Tenn. 1995-2007)

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Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper speaking on the future of health care at the 2007 Net Impact conference at Vanderbilt University.

Close to 2,000 business leaders and students from across the country packed Vanderbilt University Nov. 1-3 for a m ive event to discuss how to build a successful business while also being socially and environmentally responsible. The theme of the Net Impact Conference, hosted by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, is “Building a Sustainable Future, What Will You Do Next?” Participants heard from 300 speakers in 90 different sessions dealing with corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, international development, and non-profit and environmental management.

Jim Cooper is currently serving his third term as U.S. Congressman for the 5th District of Tennessee. Cooper also teaches health policy at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. A leading voice in Washington on fiscal policy, health policy and government accountability, he serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Cooper began his career as an attorney and investment banker. He is a Morehead Scholar, earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, a B.A./M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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