(2013/12/06) Being of two minds (Health Care)
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🗓️ 16 April 2014
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Summary
Edition #779
Being of two minds
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Let us whisper of a dream - The Good Fight - Air Date 11-21-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Boulevard of broken dreams - Green Day
Ch. 4: Act 2: Obamacare is Kentucky's Success, A Big Danger For Mitch McConnell - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-25-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Behind the curtain - Dan Potthast
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Mess on Obama's Hands - Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 11-13-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Careless whisper - George Michael
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obamacare is Doomed by Its Internal Logic - Glen Ford - Air Date: 11-20-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Failure by design - Brand New
Ch. 10: Act 5: Comparing What To What - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-22-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hurricane - The Scorpions
Ch. 12: Act 6: Obamacare Alternative? Republicans Don't Have One - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-04-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: From Finner - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 14: Act 7: Republicans Have No Answers on Health Care - Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 11-15-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Soft serve - Soul Coughing
Ch. 16: Act 8: Single Payer Healthcare Would SAVE Money - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 10-07-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Flood - Jars of Clay
Ch. 18: Act 9: Medicare you can buy into - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 19: Song 9: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 20: Act 10: A Message for GOP Governors on Obamacare - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-26-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Hard to say I'm sorry - Chicago
Ch. 22: Act 11: Better than it was, but still for-profit - Congressional Dish - Air Date: 10-12-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: How to debate myths - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 24: The value and tactics of debating - Rationally Speaking - Air Date: 12-4-11
Ch. 25: Thoughts on the standard of tipping - Joe from Barcelona
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments asking for thoughts on the episode on trans issues
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/588
http://grayson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/grayson-introduces-medicare-you-can-buy-into-act
http://www.contactingthecongress.org
Information for this segment can be found at:
https://www.healthcare.gov
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries.html
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/20-4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/03/medicaid-expansion-becomes-weapon-against-gop-governors/
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d113:1:./temp/~bd52e9::
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/KatieGoodmansUnFItUp
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, activism director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit the membership tab at BestofalF.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, looking to the award-winning Bestofal left podcast with Cook Today from The Good Fight, The Majority Report, |
| 0:13.0 | The Progressive Magazine, Commentary from Glyn Ford, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:18.0 | Activism from The Unfucked Up Project, The Tom Hartman Program, and Congressional Dish, |
| 0:23.0 | and a quick warning that this episode may make you feel like you have split personality on today's topic. |
| 0:27.0 | That's certainly how I feel. |
| 0:30.0 | Everyone has a dream. Some kids want to become citizens. Some adults want to retire with dignity. |
| 0:41.0 | Me, I have a dream too. I've always dreamt of a string of man-made private islands that spell out my own first name in the Pacific Ocean |
| 0:53.0 | within chopper distance of my corporate headquarters. But now, I may not get a chance to realize my dream. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, I'm Bradley Scavecook, health care entrepreneur. For years, my network of cut rate insurance companies |
| 1:12.0 | for profit emergency care centers and especially my medical debt collection agencies |
| 1:17.0 | have been making my dream come true. We're almost done with the letter B, and it's a sight to be old. |
| 1:25.0 | But now, thanks to Obamacare, all of that may come to an end. Obamacare makes preventative health care for free. |
| 1:34.0 | Free cancer screenings, free physical exams, free vaccines, free, I mean, to you. |
| 1:43.0 | But for me, and for all of us who profit when preventable conditions go unprevented, this so-called freedom isn't free at all. |
| 1:52.0 | You see, I can't stock my island chain with menageries of sequined bedecked endangered species with the kind of money you make from early detection. |
| 2:02.0 | If you want to fall asleep to the sight of a chimpanzee in a reflective neon pink unitar shimmering in the light of a solid platinum disco ball, as I do, then you need the kind of profits that can only be reaped from full-blown medical emergencies. |
| 2:22.0 | Obamacare's tragic focus on preventing tragedies may turn America this hallowed land of opportunity |
| 2:31.0 | into just another unmarked mass grave full of the corpses of the hopes of people like me, because achieving my American dream, that's a preventable condition too. |
| 2:44.0 | Next time you think about giving healthcare.gov another world, think about that mass grave. |
| 2:52.0 | Think about my islands never existing. Think about my chimp with that as unitarred. |
| 2:59.0 | And join me at stop this Obamacare monster before people start preventing highly profitable emergencies.org. |
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