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Johns Hopkins CEO: Surge of Medicaid Patients Offers Problems, Rewards
The expansion of Medicaid, which will bring health coverage to 16 million disadvantaged Americans by 2019, “could be the most important and problematic” aspect of the new health insurance law, Dr. Edward Miller, dean the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University medical school and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, warned at a Club luncheon June 21. Yet, he said, the experience at Johns Hopkins shows that the surge in Medicaid patients – a majority of the 32 million Americans overall who will gain coverage -- could be “the most rewarding aspect of the entire law.” Miller, leader of the giant…
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AID Administrator Calls Haiti Earthquake Source of Learning, Guide to Reform
Rajiv Shah, administrator of the Agency for International Development, cited the earthquake in Haiti as a source of learning and a guide to shaping reform in the agency during a June 18 Luncheon. The first example from Haiti that he listed was purchasing food locally so it was available immediately. He also said that vaccinating more than a million people prevented a major outbreak of disease. Because research has shown that chlorine tablets distributed with water were more likely to be used, truck drivers delivering water also distributed tablets, he said. As a result, he said, more Haitians…
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Andrew Young: 'Trying to Make Sense of the World'
“Mutual frustration led us to this book,” said Andrew Young. “I am trying to make sense of the world I live in.” The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and mayor of Atlanta and his godson, Kabir Sehgal, were at the Club on June 16 to talk about and sign their new book, “Walk in My Shoes: Conversations Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead.” Young and Sehgal have been talking regularly for over 20 years. Young said that his own children would not listen to him, but Sehgal would. Young then realized Sehgal's father knew as much as he did, but Sehgal would not…
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Please Welcome 34 New Members
Please Welcome 34 New Members The Board of Governors approved 34 member applications June 14: ActiveFrank Bass - Bloomberg News enterprise reporter; Sarah Cohen - Duke University, Knight Professor of Journalism & Public Policy; Jill Dougherty – CNN foreign affairs editor; Joyce Frieden - MedPage Today news editor; Nadar Gohar - Cairo News Co. chief editor Active ReinstateDee Ann Divis - Washington Examiner assistant managing editor Active Non-ResidentAnanda Mitra - Wake Forest University professor of communication; Heyecan N. Veziroglu – freelance journalist Active Under 35Sumanth K.…
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Latvia 'On Way Back' to Financial Recovery, Official Says
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia told a June 16 Newsmaker that his country is "well on its way back" to financial stability thanks to structural changes, internal devaluation and other economic reforms it has made. The Baltic countries were all among the hardest hit by the financial crisis. In Latvia, the number of unemployed has more than tripled since the crisis, giving it the highest rate of unemployment growth in the European Union. Dombrovskis, a former finance minister, said the measures taken by his country are "easy for the government to do, but they are not easy on…
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President Bjerga on Cover of Concordia College Alumni Magazine
NPC President Alan Bjerga is profiled in a cover story in the summer edition of Concordia Magazine, the alumni publication of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Bjerga graduated from Concordia, a private Lutheran college with an enrollment of about 3,000 studens, with degrees in history and English literature in 1995. The multi-page story takes readers through a day with Bjerga and discusses aspects of his educational experience and how it prepared him for the life of a reporter for Bloomberg News and NPC president. The full story can be found here: http://www.cord.edu/magazine/summer10/…
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ProPublica CEO Cites Success in Donor-Funded Reporting
Paul Steiger, the editor-in-chief of ProPublica and chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said a new model of collaboration can help sustain investigative journalism. At a Jun 15 Luncheon, Steiger quoted skepticism about ProPublica concept when it began operation in 2008. But “I’m delighted that this model has already been embraced” both by traditional news organizations partnering to publish ProPublica investigations and by new non-profits undertaking similar investigative work. Steiger, the 2007 winner of the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award, also serves as president…
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Habeus Corpus Rights Working at Guantanamo, Retired Judges Say
The process of habeas corpus -- the legal procedure that allows prisoners to petition a court to determine whether they are being properly held -- is working in the cases of detainees held at Guantanamo, according to a report from 16 retired judges that was discussed at the National Press Club June 10. Former FBI director William S. Sessions, a retired judge, and attorney Douglas K. Spaulding, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, spoke at Newsmaker press conference. "The right to be free is very important in this country," Sessions said. "In the modern uncertain times of war,…
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Fred Thompson: 'Prone to Go on to the Next Venture'
Fred Thompson says he owes his varied accomplishments in life to experiences in his youth and being “always prone to go on to the next venture.” The former Tennessee senator, staff lawyer for Republican members of the congressional Watergate committee and actor discussed and signed his new book, “Teaching the Pig to Dance” at the Club on June 14. The book is a memoir of growing up in the rural community of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and how his family and associations there helped shape his future and his character. But in his remarks and answers to questions, he ranged over a lot more territory.…
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Ocean Experts Say Gulf Spill Should Have Been Anticipated
Robert Twilley, professor of oceanography and coastal science and head of the Coastal Emergency Response Group at Lousiana State University, told a June 8 Newsmaker that "there is going to be a huge discussion" about why the possibility of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not anticipated and planned for. More research on the possibility of such a spill should have been done "so we would have been better prepared to handle it," Twilley said, noting that previous concerns "were justified." Twilley was joined by Celine Cousteau, conservationist and granddaughter of undersea explorer…
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