(2011/08/30) Struggling for coverage (Health Care)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 August 2011
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #523
Struggling for coverage
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Act 1: Appalled about privatizing health care - BBC News Quiz
Song 1: A Candle's Fire - Beirut
Act 2: Birth Control Will Wipe Out Civilization! (Rep. Steve King) - Sam Seder on TYT
Song 2: Drumming Song (Acoustic) - Florence + The Machine
Act 3: Absentminded Professor Says Cure For Cancer 'Around Here Somewhere' - The Onion
Song 3: Where did it go - Jimmy Cliff
Act 4: Would You Go Without Health Insurance for 6 Months for Affordable Care - David Pakman Air Date: 08-02-11
Song 4: Watch the world - Box Car Racer
Act 5: Health Insurance Companies Using Psychological Trickery - Lee Camp Air Date 08-08-11
Song 5: Machine - VNV Nation
Act 6: Repeal This (Health care law) - Slate Magazine
Song 6: Under the milky way - Seven Nations
Act 7: 9-11 First Responders Cancer - Young Turks
Song 7: How - The Cranberries
Act 8: Vermont Passes Single Payer Healthcare Bill - David Pakman
Song 8: Doctor my eyes - Jackson 5
Act 9: FDA Approves Sale Of Prescription Placebo - The Onion
Song 9: Mind excursion - The trade winds
Act 10: Hats Off to Vermont for Universal Health care - The Progressive
Song 10: Lead the way - Guardian
Act 11: Single payer health care in Vermont - Rachel Maddow
Song 11: The prettiest weed - Jim Guthrie
Act 12: Vermont: first in the nation - Jim Hightower Air Date: 8-24-11
Song 12: Be here now - Mason Jennings
Act 13: Townhall Republican Take Care Of Yourself - Young Turks
Voicemails:
Working on Michigan recall effort - Tony from Dearborn, MI
Supportive of voicemailer Beth on campaign finance reform - Ramone from Portland, OR
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments on Campaign Finance Reform and an amendment to repeal corporate personhood
Bonus Voicemails:
Veganism is a hard process to break into - Jason from Marshalltown, IA
Reevaluating animal ethics in light of empathy discussion - D from Chicago
I'm an omnivore but not a jerk - Curtis from Baltimore
Guy who was bleeped was disturbing, don't want to be on his team - Rebecca in Buffalo
"Lunatic" calls back with thoughts on cattle farming, hunting and abortion - Anonymous
Bonus final comment:
Rebuttal to pro-choice/vegan charge of hypocricy
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Ryan Tries Fails To Defend Medicare Plan - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with whoops today from the BBC News |
| 0:12.8 | quiz, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio News, The David Pakman Show, Comedian Lee Camp, |
| 0:17.2 | Slate Magazine, The Progressive, The Rachel Maddo Show, and Jim Hightower, with a bonus |
| 0:21.6 | video clip for Apple iOS and Android app users from The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.0 | Hugo, who has proposed major surgery for the health service? |
| 0:35.1 | This would be Andrew Lansley, the health secretary and his friend David Cameron, are there |
| 0:39.1 | the Tories NHS proposals, massive reforms to the NHS. |
| 0:42.8 | They've decided that GPs are brilliant, which is true, but they've decided the problem |
| 0:46.2 | with the NHS is all the administrators, so what they're going to do is get rid of all |
| 0:49.6 | the administrators, destroy primary care trusts, and give all their responsibilities to GPs, |
| 0:54.8 | but then the GPs are going to think, hold on, I'm a GP, I don't know how to administer |
| 0:58.1 | it, so they're going to have to re-employ all the administrators, which means all the |
| 1:01.7 | same people are going to get re-employed in a different way. |
| 1:04.1 | They've basically created proposals whereby they're going to spend millions of pounds |
| 1:08.6 | and enjoy 10 years of chaos to end up on this exactly back where they started. |
| 1:11.8 | It's brilliant. |
| 1:12.8 | So, in theory, any company could decide to move into health care? |
| 1:17.3 | Well, there's also the competition aspect, like an egg and spoon race. |
| 1:21.1 | Pretty much. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, ish, only if you're very unlucky, because at the moment you need your appendix |
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