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10:00Analysis of President Obama's Health Care Address

Analysis of President Obama's prime-time address to Congress and the nation on health care. Guest-host Frank Sesno and health care experts discuss the speech and how it may shape debate over a possible overhaul of the healthcare and health insurance industries.

Guests

Norman Ornstein, is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; coauthor with Thomas Mann of "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track."

Joseph Antos, is Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.

Judy Feder, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and professor of public policy at Georgetown University.

Carrie Budoff Brown, Health Care reporter for Politico.

11:00Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn: "Half the Sky" (Knopf)

Sex trafficking, acid attacks, and mass rape. Two Pulitzer Prize winning journalists on why the battle against widespread abuse of women in poor countries is the moral challenge of this century and key to addressing the root causes of many of the world's most pressing problems.

Guests

Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times

Sheryl WuDunn, former New York Times reporter.

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