We take a closer look how candidates discussed the healthcare issue. Our panelists are Osita Nwanevu, Helena Olea, and Jacqueline Luqman, with Greg Wilpert as host.

Ch. 4: Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 8-12-19

Matt Bruenig, the founder of the People’s Policy Project, is firmly in support of true single-payer. No compromise, no chaser.

Ch. 5: Democrats Talk Healthcare - Democracy Now! - Air Date 10-16-19

Dem Debate: "Disingenuous" Attacks on Medicare for All Distract from Cost of Today's Broken System

Ch. 6: Pass #MedicareforAll Resolutions in Your Communities to Build the National Movement via @PublicCitizen Medicare4AllResolutions.org - Best of the Left Activism

Join the campaign to pass local resolutions demanding Medicare for All!

Ch. 7: Healthcare: America Taken Hostage - Progressive Faith Sermons - Air Date 10-21-19

We need candidates for president to stop lying and start having compassion regarding our health care system.

VOICEMAILS

Ch. 8: Critiquing Johann Hari - Dave from Olympia, WA

Ch. 9: Challenge pledge - Todd from Utah

FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 10: Final comments on Johann Hari’s story and Todd’s Patron challenge

Ch. 11: Limerick of the Day from @Limericking

TAKE ACTION!

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Nationwide Campaign Urges Cities and Towns to Pass Resolutions Supporting Medicare for All (Common Dreams)

Massachusetts Unions Vote to Vet Presidential Candidates on Medicare for All, Breaking with Labor's Top Brass (The Intercept)

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for Medicare-for-all, explained (Vox)

Ady Barkan: Elizabeth Warren’s Plan Is a Massive Win for the Medicare for All Movement (The Intercept)

Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan, explained (Vox)

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'(Common Dreams)

Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want (Common Dreams)

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast and which we shall learn
0:07.3	about how the debate over our healthcare system has been framed and how we should frame
0:12.6	it.
0:13.6	Before we get started though, a couple of thoughts I've been realizing in the past couple
0:17.7	of days that healthcare specifically the denial of the necessity of a universal healthcare
0:24.3	system is basically akin to climate change denial.
0:30.1	The reasons are so similar and then the arguments that follow are nearly identical.
0:36.2	So you've got corporate power, right?
0:37.9	You've got entrenched corporate power invested in the status quo.
0:41.7	They don't want anything to change if we were to either solve climate change or implement
0:47.8	universal healthcare.
0:49.0	It would very much disrupt the entrenched corporate power.
0:53.0	And then secondly, there's the boogie man of socialism which makes a great cudgel to argue
0:58.4	against this kind of necessary change no matter how beneficial it would be for everyone
1:03.6	because we can scare you by saying socialism.
1:06.9	And this really crystallized for me recently, I was listening to an interview with a libertarian
1:12.7	which is sort of great to use a libertarian as a foil for argumentation because they take
1:20.0	everything to such extremes.
1:21.8	It's like looking at an argument in a fun house mirror that makes all the absurdities look
1:29.0	bigger and more boldest so you can really see them clearly.
1:34.0	And so the way this discussion went, this libertarian being interviewed by a guy who's
1:38.7	pushing back a fair amount and they were debating healthcare.
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