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| RELIGION 264 Undergraduate Voices is a podcast project by students in Professor Suzanne Holland's bioethics course in fall 2009. The podcasts represent the research and thinking of undergraduates studying bioethics at the height of the debates about how to reform the American health care system. While nearly everyone, it seems, has been asked to weigh in on what to do about health care reform — from tea party participants to pundits and politicians — no one seems to have asked college students for their opinions.
These podcasts represent the best thinking from teams of students on issues they care about — issues they think you ought to care about, too, as we try and figure out, collectively, how best to cover the great mosaic of people, and the great mosaic of problems, that make up these United States. We invite you to listen, to reflect, and perhaps even to take action if you are so moved.
Suzanne Holland was the NEH Endowed Chair in Religion during fall 2009 at Colgate (sholland@colgate.edu). She is the Philip M. Phibbs Research Professor & Professor of Ethics at the University of Puget Sound (sholland@pugetsound.edu). | 
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| You can listen to each episode by simply clicking on a link below, downloading the file to your computer to listen to later, or by subscribing to the "The Health Care Reform Debate: Undergraduate Voices" podcast series.
Special thanks to Rebekah Presson Mosby for her assistance on this project. Here is more information about podcasting at Colgate. If you are encountering problems, our podcasting producers Rich Grant and Ray Nardelli can help. |
Episode 1: Prognosis Uncertain: Economic Symptoms of the Developing Health Care Reform
John Murmello '11 and Leigh Herzog '13
This podcast explores the economic implications the current health care reform has for the 18-29 year old age bracket. We examine both the current and proposed systems for health insurance, and discuss key vocabulary in the ongoing health care debate.
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Episode 2: Experimental Coverage: A Proven Need For Unapproved Drugs
Jocelyn Recht '10 and Stef Kovacic '10
Our podcast explores the issue of experimental drug coverage in the current health care reform debate. Dismayed by the lack of discussion about the topic, we provide information and case studies about the issue that illustrate why experimental drugs are important to America’s terminally ill patients and why the issue deserves more attention.
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Episode 3: Rumors: Health Care Reform and the End-of-Life
Shannon Greulich '11 and Amy Gould '11
In this podcast, we try to confront the rumors surrounding end-of-life issues in the health care reform bill head on. They discuss what they've heard and then address such "rumors" with reality based on research and hard facts. The point of this podcast is to stress the importance of knowing what the bill is actually proposing and understanding the importance of discussing this inevitable topic with the right people.
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Episode 4: Fighting for Their rights: Military Mental Health Care
Sabrina Rodak '11 and Matt Zaringhalam '12
Mental health care services are severely lacking for the U.S. military, both veterans and active-duty service members. Some problems include a lack of providers, inadequate training for providers, and the stigma attached to treatment. Health care reform should grant insurance coverage for high quality mental health care for our heroes.
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Episode 5: Are You Needy Enough?
Elspeth Monigle '11 and Hilary Nicholson '12
This is an informative podcast about the changes to the Medicaid program in the proposed health care reform bill. The characters involved are fictional, however they represent millions of real Americans who share the same situations.
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Episode 6: Illegal Immigrants and the American Health Care Reform
Emily Long '10 and Kelly Byrne '11
In this podcast, we offer opposing perspectives of how the Affordable Healthcare for Americans Act addresses coverage for undocumented immigrants. We consider the pros and cons of the issue as well as the potential implications for the future of the American health care system.
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Episode 7: Abortion: A Universal Right
Hannah Dashefsky '11 and Carly Cox '13
This podcast explores how the federal government's new universal health care plan treats abortions. Specifically it analyzes the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a recently added bill that prohibits anyone who gets federal insurance premium subsidies from purchasing private policies that cover abortions and permanently eliminates elected abortion coverage from the public option. The authors of this podcast share their opinion that the Stupak-Pitts amendment will put poorer women at a significant disadvantage in terms of being able to obtain abortions. Instead the authors believe that the universal health care plan should provide everyone with an equal opportunity to access whatever health services they need.
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Episode 8: Health Care for the Elderly: What Your Grandparents Deserve
Meghan Healey '11 and Patricia Jarombek '12
The current health care reform led by President Obama claims to improve the state of elderly health care in America. Still, funding will be redistributed and drastic cuts will be made to the Medicare program, begging the question of whether it is socially just to cut preferentially from the elderly. Health care reform concerning the elderly is a universal and personal issue deserving our attention.
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Episode 9: Global Care: A Comparison of International Health Care Systems
Ashley Johnson '13 and Halley Goldman '13
We will be exploring universal health care systems from around the world. We will then compare these systems to the proposed plan in the United States and if any of these systems would be feasible in America.
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Episode 10: Women's Health Care: A Battle for Equality
Rebecca Levy '11 and Amanda Kirwan '12
In this podcast, we discuss issues of women’s health care and various objectives in the current reform that strive for gender equality. These issues include: gender rating, pre-existing conditions, abortion, and the uninsured population. The current health care reform aims to resolve some of these issues by proposing a range of solutions that we will explore in this podcast.
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Episode 11: Finding a Balance Between Quality of Care and Physicians' Concerns
Ariana Lo Giudice '11 & Nick Pawlush '13
A look into physicians' opinions on the current health care reform debate and changes that they would like to see included in the new legislation.
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Episode 12: Minority Health
Doneisha Snider '10 & Sumeeta Sankar '12
Many people tend to look over the fact that huge disparties in health care exist in the United States. Unfortunately, minorities are disproportionately affected by these gaps and experience inequalities that hinder access to care and quality of care. Policy makers need to take the unique needs of minorities in to account when creating and implementing health care reform.
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Episode 13: Health Care Reform and Doctors' Pay
Lenny Frenkel '11 and Brittany Bober '11
As two college students looking to pursue a career in medicine, we discuss how the medical field looks to be impacted by the new health care reforms. More specifically, we address how the proposed bills will impact doctor compensation.
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