310. The Health Insurance Illusion
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I explain how the idea of health insurance for all actually increases costs and puts a healthier America further out of reach.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Today, the health insurance illusion, how America's system is draining the nation dry. |
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| 1:01.0 | When it comes to health insurance, |
| 1:05.0 | we've been sold a huge bill of goods, I'm afraid. |
| 1:09.0 | I only figured this out years after covering Obamacare and a lot of |
| 1:13.7 | health insurance issues, but I must say when I was first covering the idea of insurance for all, |
| 1:20.4 | universal insurance, Obamacare, different kinds of proposals. From a common sense standpoint, |
| 1:25.4 | I couldn't figure out how making everybody have health insurance |
| 1:29.2 | that would then ensure that exorbitant costs of health care were covered and that everybody |
| 1:35.5 | who wanted to charge whatever they charge would get paid because everybody would have health |
| 1:40.4 | insurance, how that would possibly control health care costs, which we were told |
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