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NOW on PBS  Gambling With Health Care

How the economic collapse is creating a health care calamity. Details

 

Program: NOW on PBS

Episode: Gambling With Health Care

NOW travels to Nevada, where a huge budget deficit, spiking unemployment, and cuts in Medicaid and other public services are forcing people to gamble with their own lives. Recently, the only public hospital in Las Vegas had to shut its doors to cancer patients and pregnant women. Should the government be helping out?

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Duration: (25:17)
Premiere Date: 08/13/2009
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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