Sweeping Changes in Medicare; The Secret Life of Men; What Makes Men Men?
Sweeping Changes in Medicare
A Senate committee voted on Thursday to substantially reform Medicare with the adoption of a prescription drug benefit and the inclusion of private insurance companies in the program that provides health coverage to 40 million senior and disabled Americans. Patt Morrison talks with Democrat Pete Stark about the Senate plan and a competing House plan to reform Medicare.
The Secret Life of Men
Author and screenwriter Alan Eisenstock joins Patt Morisson to talk about his new book Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men (Atria Books). It tells the story of how eight men transformed a weekly pick-up game of basketball into an intimate exchange of personal experience and emotions, creating a bond between them that went far beyond the basketball court.
What Makes Men Men?
British geneticist and science writer Steve Jones joins Patt to talk about the Y chromosome and those who bear it, namely men. In his new book Y: The Descent of Men (Houghton Mifflin), he explores the effects of the Y chromosome on men and how it causes them to become the "weaker" sex.