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The Leonard Lopate Show / July 28, 2006

The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, July 28, 2006
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    Under Cover

    On today's show, we'll look at what kind of help is available for those without health insurance. Then, we'll pay tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest novels: James Hogg’s 1824 masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, as part of our summer Underappreciated Literature series. Plus: a new novel imagines two real-life master pulp writers pitted against an evil madman in 1937. And Mike Wallace remembers some of the highlights of his 60 years on the air.

How to Get Health Insurance

There are 150 uninsured people for every physician in America. We’ll ask Jim Brown, of The Actors’ Fund of America’s Health Insurance Resource Center, and attorney Robert M. Hayes, of the Medicare Rights Center, about what kind of help is available for the uninsured. And we’ll take your calls on how to get health insurance if you need it.

»AHIRC's New York website
»Medicare Rights Center's website

More resources:
»The Commonwealth Fund
»Working Today
»New York City Free Clinic
»Healthy New York
»Health Pass, help for small business owners
»More info about Woodhull hospital's Artists Access bartering program
»Atlantis, a more affordable HMO
»Fractured Atlas
»Media Bistro

Underappreciated Literature: James Hogg

In 1824, the poet and shepherd James Hogg wrote one of Scotland’s most important novels: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The book was not seen as a masterpiece at the time, and for decades critics dismissed Hogg as a minor writer. Now, he’s recognized as a literary genius, and the author of one of the world’s first psychological novels. Dr. Gillian Hughes of the James Hogg Society joins us for our Underappreciated Literature series.

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A New Take on Classic Pulp

Paul Malmont's new pulp novel, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, imagines what would happen if two of the genre’s greatest writers went head-to-head with a criminal mastermind.

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60 Years and 60 Minutes

Veteran “60 Minutes” reporter Mike Wallace shares some of the highlights of his 60 years in broadcast journalism in his new memoir: Between You and Me.

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Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

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Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?