104 - Busting The Right's Lies: Universal Health Coverage Doesn't Mean Long Waits For Care / Robert Bork, Nominee For The Hypocrites Hall Of Shame

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🗓️ 24 August 2007

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A slight change of pace today. Instead of one long segment, we'll discuss two topics. First up, debunking some of the latest right-wing talking points against universal health care, including the lies that we already have the best health care system in the world, and that universal health care leads to long waiting times for treatment.One of the Blast The Right rules of thumb is, whatever a

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is Podcast No. 104 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:31.1	A slight change of pace today, instead of one long segment, we'll discuss two topics.
0:37.4	First up, debunking some of the latest right-wing talking points against universal healthcare,
0:43.4	including the lies that we already have the best healthcare system in the world, and
0:49.2	that universal healthcare leads to long-waiting times for treatment.
0:53.9	In the second segment, we'll expose the shameless hypocrisy of a leading elder in the right-wing
1:00.3	constellation of stars, Judge Robert Bork.
1:03.8	Let's get right into it.
1:06.3	My sources for this segment are TheNewYorkTimes, BusinessWeekMagazine, HealthDigest.com, The
1:13.2	NewYorkerMagazine, MSNBC.com, YesMagazine, and FoxNews.com.
1:21.3	Forming the American healthcare system is shaping up to be one of the hot topics in the
1:26.6	2008 presidential campaign.
1:29.8	Why?
1:30.8	Currently, 45 million Americans lack any healthcare coverage.
1:36.6	Tens of millions more are underinsured, that is to say, they have inadequate healthcare
1:42.4	coverage.
1:43.4	Almost half of all bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, and a large percentage of
1:48.5	those people actually had medical coverage, obviously inadequate coverage.
1:54.9	So it's no surprise that the American public overwhelmingly supports a government guarantee
2:01.1	of health insurance for all Americans, by 64 to 27 percent, according to a February New
2:08.6	York Times CBS poll.
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