John Dehlin

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (2007-06-27) The new film Sicko may present some typical Michael Moore theatrics, but in it, Moore poses some important questions about health care in the United States. Who are we as a nation if we allow 44 million people to go uninsured? Thursday, we’ll look at Canadian politician and icon Tommy Douglas who fought for universal coverage in the early 1960s. Some 50 years later, and the United States remains embroiled in a similar debate. Doug talks to Gregory Marchildon of the University of Regina and to Gerard Anderson of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about what the US can learn from other health care models, and why it is we seem so reluctant to change.

Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the “new monastics.” With virtues like simplicity and imagination, they are engaging great contradictions of our culture — beginning with the gap between the churches they were raised in, the needs of the poor, and the “loneliness” they find in our culture’s vision of adulthood.