(2011/06/02) Fiscal and physical health (Health Care)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 June 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #493
Fiscal and physical health
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Act 1: The GOP Budget Bill Will Kill 70,000 Children Around the World - Majority Report
Song 1: First day of my life - Bright Eyes
Act 2: Misleading story on cutting Social Security - Counterspin
Song 2: Great divide - Fair
Act 3: Interview with Austin Goolsbee - Colbert Report
Song 3: 14 years - Guns N' Roses
Act 4: The Artful Dodgers - Jim Hightower
Song 4: Basket case - Green Day
Act 5: Tax Policy for Wealthy - Counterspin
Song 5: Starring - Freelance Whales
Act 6: Tea Party Group Trying To Kill Medicare - Young Turks
Song 6: I Didn't Fuck It Up - Katie Goodman
Act 7: Bernie Sanders on a new idea for health care - Grit Radio
Song 7: Leader - Burning Spear
Act 8: Republicans Want to Literally Take Food out of the Mouths of Babes - The Progressive
Song 8: The kids don't stand a chance - Vampire Weekend
Act 9: Sorkin airing comments from Wall Street CEO's - Counterspin
Song 9: Praise you - Fatboy Slim
Act 10: Single-Payer Plan - Senator Bernie Sanders
Song 10: The Right Place at the Night Time - Fluid Lines
Act 11: Tea Party Excuse For NY 26th District Special Election Results - Young Turks
Song 11: Sydney (I'll Come Running) - Brett Dennen
Act 12: Why we can't have an adult conversation on health expenses - Majority Report
Voicemails:
Reaction to the police state episode - Raven from Louisville, KY
Show suggestion: Skeptics guide to the universe - Daniel from Ohio
Look at church funds being used for politics, Obama's foreign policy powers are limited - Vikki from HI
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter - RjD2
Final comments on a meetup at Netroots Nation
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Report: Economy Failing Because U.S. Built On Ancient Indian Burial Grounds - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio. Download their free |
| 0:03.8 | mobile app and use the promo code BEST during activation for a chance to win |
| 0:07.7 | $100. Now welcome to the award-winning best-of-the-life podcast with clips |
| 0:11.6 | today from the Majority Report, Counter-Spin, the Colbert Report, Jim |
| 0:15.4 | Hightower, the Young Turks, Grit Radio, the Progressive and Senator Bernie |
| 0:19.4 | Sanders, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from |
| 0:23.9 | the Onion News Network. In speaking about the proposed Republican budget, the head |
| 0:35.7 | of the U.S. Agency for International Development told lawmakers on Wednesday that |
| 0:40.2 | the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 |
| 0:45.9 | children worldwide who depend on American food and health assistance. He said, |
| 0:51.2 | we estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that HR1 |
| 0:55.2 | would lead to 70,000 kids dying. USAID, Administrator Ravi Rajiv Shah testified |
| 1:02.5 | before the House appropriations state and foreign ops subcommittee. Of that 70,000, |
| 1:09.8 | 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled |
| 1:13.1 | back specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out as 24,000 would die because of |
| 1:17.4 | lack of support for humanizations. And other investments, 16,000 would be because |
| 1:22.3 | of lack skilled attendance at birth. The IDA account supports 1.6 million people in |
| 1:31.9 | Daffors, so having the account would place 800,000 people at risk. And Republicans |
| 1:40.2 | response was, come on, those kids probably aren't even white. So no, I don't know |
| 1:46.4 | that they said that. |
| 2:16.4 | It's no secret that many in the corporate media, pundits and reporters alike, think the |
| 2:31.2 | deficit should be an urgent concern in Washington. And when they talk about the |
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