Healthcare Update and Sine Die Review

This week's Pennsylvania Newsmakers highlights a discussion of health care coverage with Jim Redmond, Sr. VP of the Hospital and Healthsystem Assoc. of Pa. Topics covered include MCare funding, health care affordability, hospitals and the uninsured, and the economic impact of hospitals on the state's economy. On the second part of the show two journalists, Amy Worden of the Philadelphia Inquirer and John Micek of the Allentown Call discuss the tensions between Gov. Rendell and GOP legislative leaders and speculation that the Lt. Governor, Catherine Baker Knoll, could be dropped from the Democratic ticket in 2006.