#1260 Gearing up for the fight for Medicare for All
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🗓️ 30 March 2019
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Air Date: 3/29/2019
Today we take a look at the history of why we don't already have Medicare for All, just a handful of the overwhelming reasons why we need it and the fight ahead to make it a reality
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Why We Don't Have Medicare for All - The Michael Brooks Show - Airdate 12-7-17
Why don't we have what the rest of the world has? History of what has happened with Medicare and the intended medicare for all.
Discussing the broken, immoral economics inherent to for-profit insurance systems.
Ch. 3: The feminist argument for Single Payer - Katie Halper Show - Air Date 4-5-18
Natalie Schure makes the feminist case for #MedicareForAll.
Ch. 4: Pramila Jayapal and Medicare For All - Democracy Now - Air Date 3-6-19
Pramila Jayapal announces the Medicare For All bill and the breakdown of why it's ambitious and why it will save money. We just have to watch out for Democrats in the pocket of big medical industries.
Ch. 5: Diane Archer on Medicare for All - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-14-19
We’ll talk about Medicare for All and the media with Diane Archer—founder and former president of the Medicare Rights Center, she is currently president of JustCareUSA.
Ch. 6: Obama and Clinton Alumni To Fight AGAINST Medicare For All - Majority Report - Air Date 12-13-18
Obama and Clinton's alumni are working to DESTROY Medicare For All. Michael Brooks and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
Ch. 7: Pramila Jayapal is on the fast track for Medicare For All - Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 2-28-19
Pramila Jayapal breaks down the Medicare For All bill, the broad support it enjoys, the fight ahead against corporate interests and why it's important to keep the transition timeframe short.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Choosing based on race is racism - Mike from St. Petersburg, FL
Ch: 9: Grant's call was upsetting - Holly from San Francisco
Ch: 10: Voting based on identity won't solve anything - Chris from Utah
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on power and racism by two definitions
TAKE ACTION!
List of State Grassroots Medicare for All Action Organizations
Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE) Tools for Action
Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE) Tools for Education
EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE
Read the Bill: H.R.1384 - Medicare for All Act of 2019
Read this Book: "Health Justice Now" by Timothy Faust
Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman
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| 0:23.2 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:28.2 | about the history of why we don't already have met her for all. |
| 0:32.7 | Just a handful of the overwhelming number of reasons why we need it and the fight ahead |
| 0:37.9 | to make it a reality. |
| 0:39.5 | Clips today come from the Michael Brooks show, The Zero Hour, The Katie Halper Show, Democracy |
| 0:44.9 | Now, Counter-Spin, The Majority Report, and The Ezra Client Show. |
| 0:55.4 | We have this broad vague idea that obviously relative to Western Europe as an example, |
| 1:02.8 | America does not have anywhere nearly as developed a universal social safety net system. |
| 1:07.7 | There's these kind of vague ideas, some of which are rigorous and make sense, some of |
| 1:13.1 | which are kind of abstract and almost like national myths about why America can't have |
| 1:17.6 | universal systems or why America doesn't have universal systems. |
| 1:21.2 | But there's a very specific history with national health insurance that goes back to the |
| 1:27.0 | 1940s and actually tells us a lot about not only why we don't have single pair but how |
| 1:31.6 | politics works today. |
| 1:34.2 | Can you take us back then and explain to us that story moving forward from the 40s onward? |
| 1:40.0 | Sure, yeah, so I think that basically every country arrives at whatever social systems |
| 1:46.6 | it has and that certainly includes healthcare through a unique set of historical circumstances |
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