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'Bodkin': Behind the Scenes of Michelle and Barack Obama's First Scripted Drama Series - Entertainment Tonight
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POTUS and his two democratic predecessors were on the Smartless podcast. Most telling moment for me: Biden stated that more Federal funds were going to Red states than to Blue states. When one of the hosts asked him if the Red state people know this or cared, he replied that he vowed to be the president for all Americans, and he is doing so.
Obama was forceful, Clinton was funny and erudite. Although Bubba surprised me a bit when he started with a story about pot farming in the Ozarks.
Lastly, Sleepy Joe gave specific, logical answers to questions, didnt fumble pronunciations, and his sentences were coherent; but obviously those were not surprising to me.
You can listen to it on your favorite Podcast app, or on YouTube: (the haters are out in full force on YT andtheircomments are entertaining)
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It's normal for siblings to drift apart a little after leaving the parental home, but that wasn't the case for Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. In fact, even though they attended college in different states, the sisters found themselves back together in California.
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Following a few years of studying atUniversity of Michigan,Sasha ended up transferring to the University of Southern California to complete her final college year, putting her closer to her sister, who moved to LA after graduating from Harvard in 2021. In fact, they were roommates.
Michelle Obama told People in 2022 the two had moved in together, revealing her reaction was, "Okay, well that's interesting that you guys are going to try living together. We'll see how it goes." But, jokes aside, Michelle admitted that she was happy to see her children getting along so well. She told Peoplethat same month that she'd been over to see her girls' place, which she described as a pleasant visit that included sipping on martinis. "To see them in that place where they're one another's support systems and they've got each other's backs, is just it's the thing that a mother would want," the former First Lady gushed.
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Growing up in Elkins, West Virginia, (current population 6,800), Nancy H. Nielsen, MD 76, PhD, could not have fathomed that she would one day not only meet the president of the United States, but work with his administration to completely transform health care in America.
Now her work and that of many others on the Affordable Care Act, from advocacy to implementation, has been documented for posterity in the Obama Presidency Oral History.
Nielsen, senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is one of the extraordinary people from all walks of life invited to participate in the Obama Presidency Oral History project. Compiled by Columbia University, the history is based on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with hundreds of people.
Just being invited to do the interview was an incredible honor, Nielsen says. It also gave her a chance to review how she came to take part in one of the most significant health care reforms the U.S. has ever seen.
In 1973, with a doctoral degree in microbiology and a faculty position at the Jacobs School, Nielsen was accepted to the UB medical school. She was a nontraditional student, since she already had a faculty position and was also raising five small children. She was one of just 30 women in her class of 135.
After graduating and serving as the first woman chief resident in internal medicine at Buffalo General, Nielsen was board-certified as an internist. In addition to running a busy private practice, she was drawn to the policy side of medicine. She served as president of the Erie County Medical Society, became involved with the state medical society and started working at the national level.
She served four consecutive terms as speaker of the American Medical Association House of Delegates and in 2008 was elected AMA president, a term that coincided with the intensifying national health care debate.
While Nielsen was president-elect, the AMA launched its Voice for the Uninsured campaign, advocating for health care reforms that would extend health insurance coverage to Americans who didnt have it.
In preparing for the campaign, the AMA media relations staff asked if Nielsen had any patients who were uninsured.
Nancy H. Nielsen, MD 76, PhD, with her extended family after receiving the Jacobs Schools Distinguished Alumni Award in the fall 2023.
Thats when Nielsen revealed she had also been uninsured. During graduate school, I delivered two babies when I was uninsured, she says, and that became the cause of my life: to make sure all Americans got health insurance.
She recalls that at the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, 19% of the U.S. population had no health insurance.
It really was a national scandal, to tell you the truth, and there were places where it was even worse than that, she says. There is nothing good about being uninsured. That was the whole point of the Voice for the Uninsured. They didnt have a voice. So we became that voice.
Once implemented, the Affordable Care Act cut the uninsured rate in the U.S. to 9% from 19%. It would have cut it even more, Nielsen explains, but the Supreme Court intervened and said the expansion of Medicaid, which was supposed to insure millions, was a states rights issue.
Since then, more states have come on board. Nielsen says its now down to about 10 states that havent expanded Medicaid, about half of which are considering it or are about to expand.
Nielsen, then president of the American Medical Association, welcomed President Barack Obama to the AMA House of Delegates annual meeting in Chicago on June 15, 2009. Photo courtesy of the American Medical Association
A few months after Nielsen finished her term as immediate past president of the AMA, she got a call from the White House. She was asked to come work at the newly established Center for Innovation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human Services.
It was a brand-new part of HHS, and they said they needed me to come to bring the physician voice, as they were implementing this new part of the government, Nielsen says.
As senior adviser for stakeholder engagement, she would be on loan from UB to the federal government, a stint that would last two years. Her role was to interact with, and share the concerns of, clinicians throughout the health care system.
The Innovation Center is unique in government, Nielsen notes. It was enshrined in the ACA law, so that instead of making a big policy change and then having unintended consequences, the Innovation Center would do pilots and actually evaluate whether the care was improved and whether there were savings. That was the purpose. There was no place else in government where there was the flexibility to try something to see if it worked.
She assumed additional responsibilities working with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, advising on policy and sometimes attending events when the secretary could not.
It was just an extraordinarily exciting time and I loved it, Nielsen remembers.
She admits that working in Washington was seductive, but she always intended to return to UB.
I owe my career to UB, she says simply. I always wanted to be a physician. I didnt have money. After my fifth child was born, I finally applied. I was 29 when I started medical school and my fifth child was 2 months old.
So UB gave me a chance. I was lucky that the admissions committee let me in, and I will never forget it. My whole career has been here and Ive just been very fortunate. I owe it all to UB.
Now shes passing her passion for policy on to the next generation of physicians. Nielsen was recently asked to be faculty adviser to a group of Jacobs School students who want to develop a policy elective.
Why is policy important? she asks. Policy is the road map that we use to get to the society we want. For me, it meant getting affordable health insurance for every American. I tell the students, Your cause will be different. My role here is to help the students change the world, whatever that means to them.
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