Ready for more insurance related podcasts? The Insurance Podcast Roundup brings you new episodes of podcasts that go over important and newsworthy insurance related topics. This week, the biggest topic has to do with insurance coverage and women’s health care.
NPR has an episode of “Tell Me More” that was released on February 3, 2012. This episode is called “Contraception Provision Sets off Firestorm”. Host Michel Martin speaks with Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times. They discuss the Obama administration’s decision that religious institutions have to have health plans that cover contraception. U.S. Catholic Bishops are intending to fight this rule.
NPR has an episode of “Morning Edition” that was released on February 2, 2012. This episode is called “Catholic Bishops Revolt Against Birth Control Rules”. Host Renee Montagne speaks with Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Byline), and the Reverend David Zubik about this topic.
PBS NewsHour has an episode that was released on February 7, 2012. This episode focuses on the battle between Catholic leaders and the Department of Health and Human Services regarding health insurance coverage for birth control.
NPR has been doing a weekly podcast roundup called “It’s All Politics”. They released a new episode on February 2, 2012. Part of this discussion includes the topic: “women’s health care turns (more) political”. This couldn’t possibly be about anything other than the controversial issue about health insurance coverage for birth control.
NPR has an episode of “All Things Considered” that was released on February 3, 2012.
This episode was called “Komen’s Race To Reverse Course: Questions and a PR Challenge”.
This episode describes what happened when the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation chose to cut its funding for cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood. It also discusses the effect that choice had on public relations for the Komen foundation. Although this topic is not, directly, insurance related, it does play into health insurance because women who lack health insurance coverage were the ones who were relying on cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood.
NPR has an episode of “Morning Edition” that was released on February 6, 2012. This episode “Komen Foundation Struggles to Lure Back Donors”. The episode discusses the difficulty that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation is having with disillusioned donors who watched the foundation pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, and then restore it.
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