Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Medicare trustees: System headed for bankruptcy in 2019
  Social Security is projected to stay solvent until 2041, but the government says Medicare will be bankrupt in 12 years. In a recent report, the program's trustees say urgent reform is necessary if the nation wants to save Medicare.11:00 a.m.
  Guests
  David Durenberger: Former U.S. senator, R-Minn. Durenberger, who earned the nickname "Senator Health" when he was in Congress, is chair of National Institute of Health Policy at the University of St. Thomas.
  Susan Foote: Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
  Resources
  Read the Medicare report
• E.J. Dionne pays tribute to E.J. McCarthy
  In a speech at St. John's University this month, Washington Post syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne paid tribute to a Minnesotan who changed history. Eugene McCarthy was the Minnesota Senator whose 1968 anti-Vietnam war presidential campaign forced the end of Lyndon Johnson's re-election bid and galvanized America's youth movement.12:00 p.m.
  More from MPR
  Documentary: The McCarthy Tapes (12/08/2006)
  Highlights from McCarthy memorial services in Washington and Collegeville (01/24/2006)
  Eugene McCarthy in his own words (12/12/2005)
  Friends and admirers remember Eugene McCarthy (12/12/2005)
  E.J. Dionne talks politics on Midday (04/17/2007)

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