#1291 The Life and Death Politics of Health Care
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 7/23/2019
Today we take a look at the fight for Medicare for All through the lens of the Democratic Primary elections.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: All About Medicare For All - Election Ride Home with Chris Higgins - Air Date 4-12-19
Bernie launched his latest Medicare For All bill with many cosponsors, and the big takeaway is eliminating private insurance and regulating drug companies.
Ch. 2: Is Biden a Liar or a Crazy Old Man? - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-15-19
Joe Biden's Medicare For All stance is shady, if best. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
The healthcare system is unsustainable; without a Medicare for All system, only the wealthiest will be able to afford decent care - Wendell Potter on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
Ch. 4: Medicare For All VS Medicare For America - Kim Iverson - Air Date 3-19-19
Beto wants to keep insurance and profit in healthcare. Bernie doesn't.
Analysts Lester Spence and Kimberly Moffit critique Democratic candidates for president as they took on corporate power and healthcare
Private health insurance needs to end, profit and wall street decide our healthcare. Other countries have many options we can build from. The transition must happen.
People are dying because they can’t afford health treatment, and that needs to change.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: The Christianization of education - Navreet from Illinois
Ch. 9: Insulting to holocaust survivors to not make the comparison to concentration camps - April from Lexington, MA
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments telling the story of what the hell JFK was talking about referring to why we choose to go to the moon and do the “other things”
TAKE ACTION!
Help build a #MedicareforAll groundswell ahead of the 2020 elections. Pass local government resolutions on Medicare for All in your communities, towns, cities and states across the country. Go to Medicare4AllResolutions.orgfor the tools you need to get started, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.0 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:09.8 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Love podcast, in which we shall learn |
| 0:14.6 | about the fight for Medicare for All through the lens of the Democratic primary elections. |
| 0:20.4 | Now before we get started, there's just a few thoughts to take with you. |
| 0:24.2 | I just want to point out that today's episode is focused on politics. |
| 0:28.0 | We're not really making the case for Medicare for All. |
| 0:31.7 | Like some of that slips in there naturally, but we're focusing on politics because that is the process. |
| 0:39.0 | God help us for how things actually get done. |
| 0:42.8 | And with money in politics, there is almost no such thing as people changing their minds, |
| 0:47.9 | so trying to convince them using argumentation and reason and facts and statistics and morality |
| 0:56.5 | and anything else will have almost no effect. |
| 1:00.6 | People pretty much vote the way they are paid to vote unless they are sufficiently scared |
| 1:07.0 | by the voting public. |
| 1:09.1 | Literally, people threatening to vote them out of office, regardless of how much money |
| 1:13.4 | they have to spend on campaign ads, is the one thing that can turn a politician's vote |
| 1:19.6 | away from the money interests. |
| 1:23.0 | So we're focusing on politics today. |
| 1:25.6 | And I just want to tell this one story that's not in the show, but it's the thing that |
| 1:31.0 | stuck out to me the most when doing my listening and my research. |
| 1:35.5 | It's the story from Wendel Potter. |
| 1:37.8 | He's famous in healthcare reform circles. |
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