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Negotiating Risks

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 22, 2011

The shift from non-profit to for-profit hospice care may have opened some programs up to billing abuses. Peter Waldman of Bloomberg News talks about his investigation into hospice care as an option for people who are not at the end of their lives. Plus: Sam Schwartz and toll-avoidance; the art of negotiation at the height of the debt ceiling talks in Washington, sports lockouts, and state worker deals; and how hot IS it? 

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