125 - Yet More Evidence That Right-Wing Health Care Policies Are Deadly / Progressive Victories: Economic Justice For Farmworkers!

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 12 June 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today you'll hear how right-wing opposition to universal health care kills cancer patients.Actually, right-wing health care policies kill thousands of Americans every year, according to study after study.Also: I'll give you some great news about economic justice for farm workers.The question to right-wingers here is: shouldn't the people whose back-breaking labor puts the food on your plate, earn

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0:00.0	3.
0:19.7	Greetings y'all listening to podcast number 125 of Blast the Right.
0:23.9	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.2	Today you'll hear how right wing opposition to universal healthcare kills cancer patients.
0:33.2	I'll also give you some great news about economic justice for farm workers.
0:38.8	Let's get right into it.
0:40.5	Your sources for this segment include the New York Times, Reuters, the website of the American
0:45.6	Cancer Society and USA Today.
0:49.0	You can now tell your right wing friends and acquaintances with even more certainty that
0:54.3	their healthcare policies kill people with cancer and with other health problems as well.
1:00.8	Right wing opposition to a federal healthcare guarantee is deadly.
1:05.4	You can file this one in the folder labeled right wing policies increase human misery suffering,
1:11.4	pain and death.
1:12.7	What a thick, overflowing folder that is.
1:16.1	You may have heard of the Lancet, it's one of the world's major peer reviewed medical
1:20.5	journals.
1:21.5	It's only published the most comprehensive study, 3.7 million patients it was, seeking
1:27.1	to determine if there's a correlation between what stage cancer is diagnosed at and the
1:32.3	person's insurance status.
1:34.8	And a correlation was indeed found.
1:37.4	The uninsured are more likely to receive a diagnosis of cancer in one of the later stages
1:43.4	than those with private insurance, and their chances of survival are thereby diminished.
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