Health Insurance, Grammar Rules, Diet Depression

Health Insurance, Grammar Rules, Diet Depression

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 6, Episode 193

  • Aug 15, 2017 4:00 pm
  • 2:21:50 mins

Complicated Health Insurance (18:49) J.B. Silvers, PhD, is the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance and professor of banking and finance at Weatherhead School of Management with a joint appointment in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Health insurance and how you feel it should be administered has quickly been added to the list of “no, nos” that you should not talk about at work.  Why does something so simple seem so complicated?  J.B. Silvers explains why health insurance is so complicated. The Sense of Style: A New Approach to Grammar Rules (1:05:49) Steven Pinker, Ph. D, is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of ten books, including "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." Steve Pinker discusses how language evolves and how to improve your writing style. Diet Depression (1:52:16) Ron Hager, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Exercise Sciences in the College of Life Sciences at Brigham Young University. His area is expertise is Chronic Disease Prevention. Dr. Hager talks about how your diet can lead to depression.