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An unprecedented collaboration of PBS programs - NIGHTLY BUSINESS
REPORT, NOW ON PBS and TAVIS SMILEY - investigates health care
reform in America.
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:00-10:30 p.m.
ET
With health care reform now the most pressing and talked-about
domestic issue in America, the hallmark PBS programs NOW ON PBS,
TAVIS SMILEY and NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT are collaborating to
provide a single timely and much-needed in-depth look at health
care reform in America and the
latest government proposals to address the issue.
Information and a special video preview of the show can be found at
www.pbs.org/now/healthcarespecial.
The program will include late-breaking news and analysis on the
health care debate and also feature cultural, political and
economic insight
from each program:
NOW ON PBS will examine how reform may change the way we live,
especially for boomers who have their own coverage, but are
also
responsible for aging parents and grown children.
NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT will investigate the costs and
controversies of employer-provided health care and new coverage
requirements many
companies are adopting as a means of controlling health care.
TAVIS will examine the causes and effects of childhood obesity,
particularly within communities of color, and explore ways to
address
this health care crisis.
An examination of one of the most far-reaching and controversial
initiatives in decades, from the most trusted journalists in
America.
Visit the PBS PressRoom pages for
NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, NOW ON
PBS and TAVIS
SMILEY.