Health care series to air on KMUW
5:50 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 -- Dr. Walt Chappell, who has worked on health reform issues with several states and the U.S. Congress, offers his recommendations. Chappell helped conduct a couple of town hall meetings on health care reform recently in Wichita. He says using taxes to pay uninsured premiums is not reform, and we must first bring down costs and make health care more accessible. Chappell is interviewed by KMUW's Frank Dudgeon.
5:50 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 -- KMUW's Carla Eckels interviews Jane Byrnes, a registered dietician and certified personal trainer in Wichita. At a recent town hall meeting on health care, she discussed ways to promote what she calls evidence-based health and wellness. Byrnes talks about evidence-based wellness and how people can be persuaded to actively engage in it.
5:50 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4 -- KMUW's Frank Dudgeon talks with Charles Fox, associate dean in the College of Health Professions and associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Wichita State University. Fox says we do not have a "health care system." He says it's not a "system," but rather a loose conglomeration of business models for health care, and that it's not "health care" because the emphasis is on managing disease and trauma, rather than on wellness, on being healthy, and on palliative care. Fox also talks about what it's like for health professionals in the United States.
5:50 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 -- Bryan Thompson interviews Dr. Steven Schroeder, former president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He was in Kansas City recently to deliver a lecture on behalf of the Center for Practical Bioethics. Thompson spoke with Schroeder about why health reform is so difficult.