Indiana & North Carolina Primary Analysis; Democracy By Initiative; Hazards Of Healthcare; Revealing Your Past To Your Kids
Indiana & North Carolina Primary Analysis
Larry Mantle talks with David Menefee-Libey, Professor of Politics at Pomona College, and Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Political Analyst for KNBC and senior scholar at the USC's School of Policy, Planning and Development about the outcomes of last night's primary elections in both Indiana and North Carolina.
Democracy By Initiative
It's not the simplest electoral process, but ballot initiatives have shaped and reshaped the lives of California citizens for almost 100 years. A new report, issued by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS), calls the process "outmoded, inflexible, confusing, complex, difficult for citizens to use and excessively dominated by money." Larry talks with Bob Stern, the Center's President, and Raphe Sonenshein, Professor of Politics at CSU Fullerton, about how to bring California's system of "direct democracy" into the 21st Century. Larry will also get Raphe's and Bob's thoughts about the dueling redistricting plans introduced by Governor Schwarzenegger and Fabian Nunez.
Hazards Of Healthcare
We've all heard the horror stories of people who died or suffered needlessly because of some test they put off or some treatment that was too expensive, thanks to problems with the American healthcare system. In his book "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Healthcare Crisis--and the People who Pay the Price," Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, chronicles and documents the history and hazards of American Healthcare. He combines the real-life stories of ordinary people with reporting from Washington, and talks about the political underpinnings of the only developed country with no guaranteed access of medical care. Larry speaks with Cohn about his book and some possible solutions for the American healthcare crisis.
Revealing Your Past To Your Kids
Larry Mantle talks with experts and takes listener calls about whether or not parents should reveal their youthful indiscretions to their kids. Joining Larry are Judy McCleese, marriage, family and child therapist and director of student support and counselor at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, and Mark Schuster, co-author of "Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask)," Chief of General Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Health Policy Research at Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard University.