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when you travel abroad. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today

from the Daily Show, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, Slate.com, Countdown, NPR, and the Colbert Report.

So how do we get here? How do we get to a place where the expansion of medical care has seen

as the denial of medical care on symbolic par with Hitler's Germany? Well, it's a long and

fascinating and boring story. Captivated the nation. So let's recap this season on The DC.

Anybody remember that show? It began innocently enough last spring, a dynamic new president

went before Congress to demand healthcare reform. I'm confident that both the House and the

Senator are going to produce a bill before the August recess. Yes, he was. And what followed was

an unprecedented display of discontent that kept us glued to our couches all summer. It reads like

something that was brought up in the early 1930s in Germany. Wait a minute. How dare you?

Put to death by their government.

Like I said, it was kind of boring. We're not done with the episodic recap yet.

The president struggled to unite the country. Now I understand everyone's

emotional right now, but listen up. I got a three point plan of fix every day.

So the House of Representatives then passed a bill with a public option. Obama knew if he could

achieve bipartisan support for reform in the Senate. His dream of healthcare reform could be a

reality. And so he set his sights on Republican Olympia Snow and corded and cultivated the prickly

senators and won her over. The reformers had done it. What could possibly stop the freight train

of reform from leaving universal healthcare station? The junior senator from Connecticut has

recognized. Hello, are you happy tax paid? Lieberman! I don't favor a public option. You got to

take out the Medicare buy-in. I don't think kids should get lollipops when they get shops.

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