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Cost to Whom?
The insurance company UnitedHealthcare wants to start rating New York doctors according to quality and cost, but New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and others think it’s really a scheme to steer us to the doctors who make them money, not inform us about the best. We’ll take a closer look. Also, Eboo Patel on his generation’s struggle to be both Muslim and American; Gothamist.com's Jen Chung returns to talk New York news; and more on the National Intelligence Estimate.
Infrastructure Breakdown
What caused the steam pipe near Grand Central to blow, and do we need to worry that it will happen again? Kate Ascher, executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and author of The Works: Anatomy of a City gives her diagnosis.
Pakistan and The War on Terror
US intelligence agencies released the National Intelligence Estimate this week, and it revealed the central place of Pakistan in the War on Terror. Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations and Carlos Pascual, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, analyze the details.
July with Jen
Jen Chung, editor of Gothamist.com, answers your questions about what's going on around Gotham each week in July.
Watch a video from a bystander of the steam pipe explosion
The Price of Health Care
Insurance company UnitedHealthcare wanted to implement a system that ranks New York doctors by quality of care and cost of service. The State Attorney General's Office asked them not to. Mary Jo Feldstein, health care reporter for the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, talks about what happened when the insurer tried to introduce a similar ranking system in Missouri. And Debra Draper, associate director of the Center for Studying Health System Change, talks about what insurance companies want to do with these rankings--and how they might impact consumers.
Faith in Moderation, and Vice Versa
Eboo Patel, executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core and author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (Beacon, 2007), looks at how young people can help tame religious radicalism.
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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