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• The pros and cons of a public health care plan
  Health insurance companies worry a public option that the Obama administration wants will spell trouble in the marketplace. What is a public plan and how much will such a plan cost?9:06 a.m.
  Guests
  G. William Hoagland: Vice president of public policy for CIGNA, a health insurance company based in Philadelphia.
  Jacob Hacker: Professor of political science and Faculty Co-Director of the Center on Health Economic & Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law.
  Maya MacGuineas: President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Director, Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation
  More from MPR
  The politics of health care reform (06/22/2009)
  Dr. Jon Hallberg on Obama's health care speech to the AMA (06/16/2009)
  Single payer health plan off the table? (06/16/2009)
  Resources
  CIGNA
  Jacob Hacker's Web site
  About Maya MacGuineas
• An economics reporter reveals his own financial mess
  Edmund Andrews reported on the downturn in the economy, writing articles on the go-go mortgage market before anyone thought it would collapse. Like millions of Americans, Andrews found himself weighed down by a home loan he couldn't afford. Unlike the others, he wrote a searing account of his own mortgage crisis.10:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Edmund Andrews: Economics reporter for The New York Times and author of the new book, "Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown."
  Resources
  Edmund Andrews' articles for the New York Times

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