#1115 An enormous tax cut for the rich disguised as health care
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 June 2017
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Summary
Air Date: 06/27/2017
Today we take a look at the enormous amount of damage the latest version of the GOPs vision of health care would inflict on the nation and keep our eye on the ultimate goal of a Medicare-For-All system
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Sen. Ron Wyden on the Secret Republican Health Care Bill - On The Media - Air Date 6-16-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Ask - The Smiths
Ch. 4: Act 2: CBO reveals just how bad the senate bill is, confirms that everyone hates it - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 6-26-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: The Oligarch - Ephemerals
Ch. 7: Song 3: Dawn Departure, Jefferson County - Black Prairie
Ch. 8: Act 4: The death spiral we're creating for Medicaid - Trumpcast from @Slate - Air Date 6-22-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: You're a Disaster - Dragonette
Ch. 10: Act 5: How we get from here to a single payer system - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 6-21-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: See you in the light - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 12: Act 6: The AHCA Is Public, and Republicans Are Officially Out To Kill Us All - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 06-23-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Le Moulin - Yann Tiersen
Ch. 14: Act 7: Support Grows For Single-Payer Medicare-For-All Plan Instead of Massive Cuts to Healthcare - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 06-23-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: Keep On Moving Forward - Emma's Revolution
Ch. 16: Act 8: Time for Democratic Party leaders to get going – or go - Jim @HightowerNews - Air Date 6-20-17
Ch. 17: Song 8: Basique - Little People
Ch. 18: Act 9: STOP TRUMPCARE via @IndivisibleTeam and TrumpcareToolkit.org - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 20: Act 10: Mitch McConnell's unconscionable health care bill - Primary Concerns from @NewRepublic - Air Date 6-27-17
Ch. 21: Final comments on Bernie Bros and the movement to remove Nancy Pelosi
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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CBO Analysis Endangers GOP Health-Care Bill (The Atlantic)
The Latest: 5th GOP senator opposes debate on health bill (MSN.com)
Senate GOP health-care bill's tax cuts would be a big boon for the rich, analysis says (CNBC)
The most devastating passage in the CBO’s report on the Senate health bill (Vox)
The Senate Health-Care Bill Is Morally Indefensible (The Nation)
Republicans Spent the Weekend Lying Their Faces Off About Health Care (The Nation)
Police drag away protesters in wheelchairs from Mitch McConnell’s office (Salon)
Sean Spicer: America Either Passes GOP Plan or Adopts Single Payer (The Ring of Fire)
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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:29.7 | with clips today from On the Media, the Bradcast, the Majority Report, Trumpcast, start making sense, |
| 0:36.3 | democracy now, gem-high tower and primary concerns. |
| 0:40.0 | Secrecy evasion and stonewalling defined the news in Congress this week. |
| 0:52.9 | I do not have any recollection. I did not remember that. If I had remembered it or if it actually occurred, |
| 1:00.2 | which I don't remember that it did. Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee issued a statement saying |
| 1:04.8 | it would bar reporters from filming interviews in Senate hallways citing safety reasons. |
| 1:09.9 | Senate Republicans have a secret healthcare bill. They planned a vote on this month, |
| 1:14.2 | but they are literally refusing to show anyone or any Democrats or the public what is in it. |
| 1:21.6 | A Senate Republican's furtively crafted their replacement for Obamacare. The story remained absent |
| 1:28.2 | from the front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times and the Wall Street |
| 1:33.1 | Journal for most of the week. No doubt the secrecy was part of the reason why. |
| 1:38.6 | Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon joins us to discuss the Iron Curtain shrouding the healthcare |
| 1:45.3 | bill. Senator Wyden, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me again, Brooke. |
| 1:50.0 | So we know McConnell hopes to pass the new healthcare bill by July 4 without public hearings or the |
| 1:56.6 | opportunity to propose amendments. Explain why the GOP doesn't plan to publicly release an early |
| 2:03.9 | draft of the health bill. What I think they understand is that this bill, if it sees the light of |
| 2:12.9 | day, is going to generate enormous opposition with the American people. Okay, for 25 points, who said |
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