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Debate over health care reform

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Tags: health care reform, single-payer health insurance, medically related bankruptcy

Today WMNF presents a debate over whether the United States needs health care reform and what kind of health care reform it needs. Our guests are John Russell who is an acute care nurse practitioner from Pasco County and David McKalip who is neurosurgeon practicing in St. Petersburg.

Russell favors reform along the lines of single payer and/or the president's plan of offering a government option to compte with private health insurance. McKalip favors an expansion of medical savings accoun...