(2013/08/09) Obamacare is not enough (Health Care)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 August 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #744
Obamacare is not enough
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Fighting In The Trenches For Reasonable Health Care - David Feldman Show - Air Date 7-29-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Manifesto II - Nahko and Medicine for the People
Ch. 4: Act 2: Dave Gregory Doesn't Even Know What He's Sure He Knows - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-12-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: We could be friends - Freelance Whales
Ch. 6: Act 3: WTF: One Hospital Charges $8k...Another $38k? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-09-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Better of dead - Elton John
Ch. 8: Act 4: New Rules On Disclosing Medical Bills - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 5-8-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Enter the Blackness (This Week in Blackness Theme) [feat. Willie Evans Jr., Elon James White & Aaron Rand Freeman] - Jasiri X
Ch. 10: Act 5: Implementing Single Payer Health Care - David Feldman Show - Air Date 7-29-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Simplify - Dan Becker and the Tourists
Ch. 12: Act 6: HealthCare-Now.org - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 13: Song 6: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 14: Act 7: Just Why are Republicans so Against Obamacare? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 08-08-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Ch. 16: Act 8: ObamaCareNado Attacks America - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-21-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: I can help - Billy Swan
Ch. 18: Act 9: Evolution Of For-Profit Medical Care - David Feldman Show - Air Date 7-29-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: We need to look at multiple causes of kids having difficulty in school - ? in Salt Lake City
Ch. 20: We needed to hear more about student loan companies - Brian from Redding, PA
Ch. 21: When prison is a step up - Chris from New York
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments on my new exciting idea on how you can help share activism events like never before
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://www.healthcare-now.org
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-resources
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/affordable-care-act/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/medicare-part-e---everybo_b_280687.html
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| 0:12.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the David Feldman show, |
| 0:17.2 | Counter-Spin, the Tom Hartman program, This Week in Blackness, |
| 0:20.4 | Activism from the Unfucked Up Project, and The Young Turks. |
| 0:23.9 | And a note that today's topic makes me more angry than any other that's literally true. |
| 0:29.2 | So stick around at the end of the show to find out why that's the case. |
| 0:33.9 | This isn't the same country as it was 48 years ago. |
| 0:37.8 | Are we capable of tweaking Obama care? |
| 0:41.6 | I think it'll have to be done on a state-by-state basis where you have innovative |
| 0:47.6 | governors and legislators who are willing to look beyond ideology and try to do what's best for their |
| 0:52.9 | citizens. You know, I like to think that Obama ushered in a progressive wave and that we would |
| 0:59.6 | see a return to bigger government. I don't think the end has come yet for Reaganomics. I think |
| 1:08.6 | it's just begun. I think this federalism, the return to the states, is exactly what Reagan |
| 1:17.8 | and Boehner and the Republicans wanted. And that's just beginning. I think, unfortunately, |
| 1:24.9 | we're seeing a second phase of right-wing politics. How far can that pendulum swing? |
| 1:32.1 | Well, they've strangled the beast. They've created paralysis in Washington, D.C. and now it's |
| 1:38.5 | up to the states. That's exactly what the Republicans wanted. And that's what we're saying now. |
| 1:44.4 | And the Supreme Court just ruled that way, too, with the marriage equality. |
| 1:49.3 | For a couple of years, I was saying that Obama was ushering in this |
| 1:53.9 | new wave of progressive big government politics, but I think the Koch brothers and Alec |
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