#1192 Fighting for Single Payer and against our neoliberal health system
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 6/26/2018
Today we take a look at the misguided transformation of our thinking about health care that causes us to accept the idea of it being a market-based commodity, who continues to support this idea and why it continues to make suckers of us all
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 2: Why Democrats Resist Medicare For All - @TZHRJ - Air Date 03-12-18
Ch. 5: Join Your Local Single-Payer Advocacy Group via @HCNow - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 7: Final comments on why single-payer health care is good for gender equality
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Find & Join your Local Single-Payer Advocacy Group via Healthcare NOW
CALL/WRITE/TWEET your members of Congress to push them to publicly support the Medicare for All Act before the Midterms:
FOR READING/SHARING
The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All(Healthcare NOW!)
Is Medicare-for-all a winning message for midterm elections? DSCC chairman weighs in(CBS)
Why So Many Democrats Are Embracing Single-Payer Health Care(The Atlantic)
"Medicare for All" is a winner in Democratic primaries(Axios)
Single-Payer Health Care Is The Key To Democratic Victory In 2018(WBUR)
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by the audiobook edition of What Truth Sounds Like, written |
| 0:07.7 | and narrated by Michael Aric Dyson. |
| 0:10.2 | What truth sounds like is about a historic meeting between Robert F. Kennedy and James Baldwin |
| 0:15.2 | that transformed RFK's thinking about race, politics, and the African-American lived |
| 0:19.8 | experience. |
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| 0:29.8 | dot com slash What Truth Sounds Like. |
| 0:33.5 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:37.4 | learn about the misguided transformation of our thinking about healthcare causing us to |
| 0:42.4 | accept the idea of it being a market-based commodity. |
| 0:46.6 | And we'll also look at who continues to support this idea and why it continues to make |
| 0:50.7 | suckers of us all. |
| 0:52.2 | Clips today come from citations needed, the zero hour, doomed, and intercepted, with |
| 0:58.3 | their call to action featuring healthcarenow.org. |
| 1:02.0 | And remember that all of the details about each clip, including their source and original |
| 1:05.6 | air date are listed in the show notes and should be visible from whatever device you're |
| 1:09.4 | using to listen. |
| 1:16.4 | Over time, do you think this kind of language begins to rewire people's brains and the way |
| 1:21.0 | we think about healthcare? |
| 1:22.9 | And how does that kind of rewiring to the extent you think this commodity-based language |
| 1:27.4 | is popularized? |
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