WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - The Diane Rehm Show for Monday July 28, 2008

Week of July 27, 2008

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10:00State Budgets In A Declining Economy

Guest host: Steve Roberts

Guest host Steve Roberts and a panel of experts and legislators discuss the impact of the country's economic downturn on states' budgets.

Chris Edwards, director, tax policy studies, Cato Institute

Kim Reuben, public finance economist, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

Corina Eckl, fiscal program director, National Conference of State Legislatures

Representative Ray Sansom, Speaker Delegate of the Florida House of Representatives (R)

Representative Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Speaker of the the Minnesota House of Representatives (D)

Guest host: Steve Roberts

A panel of doctors discusses a potential shortage of primary care physicians and what can be done to promote primary care medicine.

Dr. Karen Lasser, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. James Rohack, a cardiologist and president-elect of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Ann O'Malley, a physician and researcher for the Center for Studying Health System Change.