(2013/11/08) The old system was worse, a new system would be better (Health Care)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 November 2013
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Edition #772
The old system was worse, a new system would be better
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bad website, better coverage, great irony - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Only the good die young - Billy Joel
Ch. 4: Act 2: Booted off, but for a better deal - Counterspin - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Failing - The Laryngospasms
Ch. 6: Act 3: Another Obamacare Horror Story Debunked - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-31-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Too much trouble - Ann Reed
Ch. 8: Act 4: What Obamacare Looks Like in a Red State vs a Blue State - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 10-21-13
Ch. 9: Song 4A: Fly with your own wings - Dave Deeper
Ch. 10: Song 4B: Live long in Oregon - Laura Gibson
Ch. 11: Act 5: Healthcare.gov: Glitch or 'The Iraq War'? - The Bugle - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 12: Song 5: Satire - Sarah Jaffe
Ch. 13: Act 6: Democrat Calls Out Republicans on Health Care Lies and Obstruction - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-31-13
Ch. 14: Song 6: When anger shows - Editors
Ch. 15: Act 7: Insurance Scam: Obamacare Benefits Left Out Of Letters - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-05-13
Ch. 16: Song 7: Screwed - Slidin' Slim
Ch. 17: Act 8: Inching away from the death industry - Congressional Dish - Air Date: 10-12-13
Ch. 18: Song 8: Live and let die - Guns N' Roses
Ch. 19: Act 9: Obama Pays Price for Health Care Compromise - Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 10-29-13
Ch. 20: Song 9: The compromise - The Format
Ch. 21: Act 10: Bill Moyers Essay: Obamacare: The Right Wing’s Alamo - Moyers and Company - Air Date: 11-01-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 22: The insidious Socratic method - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 23: Consistency is overrated - Will from Tallahassee
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 24: Final comments on consistency as an indicator and the nonsense argument of withholding your vote
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestofleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups today, from the |
| 0:12.2 | Jimmy Dor show, Counter-Spin, The David Pakman Show, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Bugle, |
| 0:16.6 | The Majority Report, The Young Terce, Congressional Dish, The Progressive Magazine, and Moyers |
| 0:21.0 | and Company, and now prepared to collect your pearls as you hear both good and bad things |
| 0:26.0 | about Obamacare if you can even imagine it. |
| 0:30.0 | This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sabilius was grilled by House Republicans |
| 0:35.4 | on the malfunctioning rollout of the Obamacare website. |
| 0:39.6 | She apologized and said the problems would be fixed, but this only made the Republicans |
| 0:43.2 | more furious because they love those problems. |
| 0:47.1 | The GOP also introduced a new talking point that, contrary to what Obama had said, the |
| 0:52.1 | health care law will force many people to lose their current insurance. |
| 0:56.4 | Both Obamacare and Sabilius then responded that the insurance those people were losing |
| 1:00.3 | was crappy anyway, and under Obamacare they could get better insurance. |
| 1:05.8 | To which the Republicans replied, but what about Benghazi? |
| 1:12.0 | Meanwhile, Obama's popularity has fallen sharply and NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, |
| 1:17.0 | although the poll was skewed by factors such as everything being said about Obama on NBC |
| 1:21.0 | News and the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:24.3 | Now the Republicans wanted to lay Obamacare's individual mandate to give sick people more |
| 1:28.6 | time to enroll and healthy people more time to blow it off. |
| 1:33.4 | Their demanding Sabilius' resignation probably so they can refuse to approve her replacement |
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