Bill Resnick provides us with an overview of the issues in the Healthcare Debate: the cruel and glaring failures in the current healthcare system, the advantages of singlepayer (Medicare for All), and whether the current proposals from Obama and the Congress are worth supporting in spite of their limitations.  

A successful government-run medical system is already up and running right here in the USA.  Tom Becker reads an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof.   

Shutter Island is a film about madness and sanity, the power of psychiatry, and paranoia about government.  Hear why our Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Jimena Alvarado call it "bulimic film-making."

 Is the healthcare proposal coming from Obama and the Congress worthy of support or rejection?  Does it lay the groundwork for continuing on to real universal healthcare, or does it block the path?  Kathleen Stoll, Director of Health Policy at Families USA, lays out the real improvements coming out of DC.  A report, "At a Crossroads: Is Health Coverage Ahead for America?" is available here (PDF).

 An "incendiary mix of punk rock, Celtic folk music, and anti-imperialist, working-class, left-wing politics" ---that's how our radical musicologist Brad Duncan describes Alistair Hulett and Roaring Jack, the band he formed.  This segment contains excerpts of his songs and a discussion of his life and music with Brad and the Old Mole's Bill Resnick.   Hulett died in January.  Here's an obituary with several video clips.

 Hosted by Bill Resnick, this show focuses on the healthcare debate, Shutter Island, a movie about mental health (among other things), and features the music of the late Alistair Hulett.