Host: Gary Kohn, MD
Guest: Merrill Goozner
As Massachusetts moves to authorize a mandate on individual health insurance, are these efforts hamstrung by state-level conflicts of interest? Will similar conflicts arise on the national level? Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, addresses several obstacles to universal health care, including our need for comprehensive, independent sources of medical information. Dr. Gary Kohn hosts.