From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the Man of the Hour.

Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph, how you doing?

Very good. What a program we got today.

We do have a great program, but before we get to that I want to

welcome back our producer, engineer, editor, and webmaster Jimmy Lee Wirt, who was

laid up last week with a medical emergency but ever the trooper is back with us today

and coincidentally medical issues of what we were going to be talking about in the second

half of the show. We're going to be doing that with Professor Malcolm Sparrow

from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

He is an expert on medical fraud and how that affects the price of health care.

We will also be finding out what is going on in the darker quarters of the

business world with the corporate crime reporter Russell Mo Kiber, the

Clark Kent of the corporate crime beat, and if we have time we'll try to knock out a listener question

or two, but first we're going to talk about small business.

Now, it's been my observation that whenever a politician pushes for some sort of economic

deregulation, it's always in the name of small business. It'll be good for small business. They say remember Dick Cheney good for small business. Yes and I had a hard time believing that he cared about small business at all because they take campaign funding from big

business to create tax breaks and loopholes for their big business benefactors.

While our first guest truly knows and cares a lot about small business and how small local businesses

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