Health Reform Hits Main Street: Cute Cartoon Explains the New Health Care Law

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Run time: 09:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bz9h1ZPIG8   Posted on YouTube: April 06, 2011 By YouTube Member: FreeRangeStudios Views on YouTube: 36   Posted on DU: April 07, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 826

 
Confused about how the new health care reform law really works? This short animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014.

The Kaiser Family Foundation and Free Range Studios collaborated to bring this piece to life. Narrated by Cokie Roberts, a news commentator for ABC News and NPR and a member of Kaiser's Board of Trustees.

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1. End-of-Life Counseling, aka 'DEATH PANELS!'

As the Health Care Reform Act is attacked in courts and Congress, Need to Know discusses the quiet removal of one controversial provision, funding for end-of-life counseling (so-called "Death Panels") with Dr. Atul Gawande, author and medical writer for The New Yorker.

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