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President Bush is advocating major changes in Social Security, but many say that the situation we face with Medicare is far more dire. A panel joins Diane to discuss the future of Medicare.
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA
Leslie Norwalk, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Joseph Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute
This month's readers' review takes a look at slavery, property, freedom, and family through an unusual lens. Winner of the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, "The Known World" by Edward Jones examines the complexities of an antebellum Virginia where free blacks own black slaves.
E. Ethelbert Miller, poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, chair of the Washington D.C. Humanities Council. His last book was "How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love."
Lisa Page, freelance writer who teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
Roger Wilkins, professor of history and American culture at George Mason University
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