Self-Awareness, Pirate Next Door, End of Obamacare?
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 561
- May 25, 2017 6:00 am
- 1:42:10 mins
Is Obamacare Dying and What Is the GOP Plan? Guest: J.B. Silvers, PhD, Professor of Health Care Finance, Case Western Reserve University The effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is moving again. The bill House Republicans passed earlier this month now has an official price tag from the Congressional Budget Office, which means the Senate can get to work on it. Here’s the bottom line: the changes to healthcare will reduce the federal deficit and lower premiums for many people. But it will also raise premiums for many people and leave more Americans uninsured. So you’ll either love it or hate it, depending on your age, income and health. Using Twitter to Track the Flu Guest: Alessandro Vespignani, PhD, Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences, Northeastern University Have you ever been so miserable with the flu, complete with fever, stuffy nose, body aches, coughs that keep you up at night, that you felt like you had to tweet about it? Well if you ever have, someone may have used your tweet to track the flu in real time. And that someone could be Alessandro Vespignani, a professor of physics, computer science and health sciences at Northeastern University. He has successfully answered the CDC’s 2013 challenge to figure out how to predict the influenza season and his method involves social media, not doctors’ reports. You’re Not as Self-Aware as You Think Guest: Tasha Eurich, PhD, Organizational Psychologist, Researcher and Author of “Insight” “Know thyself” is the ancient Greek adage, and from the looks of our modern social media behavior, we’re doing pretty well at it. We take selfies, make Instagram journals, and sometimes post vulnerable insights from therapy on our Facebook feeds. Being in-touch with oneself has become a point of social pride. But organizational psychologist and best-selling author Tasha Eurich says we’re not nearly as self-aware as we think. All our navel-gazing doesn’t tell us anything about how other people see us. And without that kind of self-awareness, we’re