A Beautiful Health Care Plan, Just Terrific

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has promised lower costs, broader coverage, and better premiums in his health care plan. Well, the new bill is out, and it's uniting liberals and conservatives in outright disdain. "I've only heard from two outside groups who like this bill," says Vox health care correspondent Sarah Kliff. Everybody else hates it. Kliff walks us through the implications of "Trumpcare" and whether it has any chance of passing through Congress. For the Spiel, how your smart TV became a sleeper agent for the intelligence community. Today's sponsors: Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother tasting cup. Try it today with $4 off, when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.com with code TRYGMC. And Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer. Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial, plus postage and a digital scale, when you use promo code THEGIST. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.0	ONS reports BA carbon calculator and energy saving trust data grant subject to eligibility details at edfnity.com.
0:30.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:38.0	Twinsday March 8th 2017.
0:40.0	From slated to just I'm Mike Pesca the other day,
0:43.0	Trump, President Donald tweeted that under Obama,
0:47.0	122 prisoners left Gitmo and rejoined the battlefield.
0:52.0	Wrong it was 9 under Obama, the rest under Bush.
0:56.0	That wasn't even going to mention this.
0:58.0	You know, that a president of the United States got a fact so utterly and thoroughly backward.
1:05.0	Though, Politifact dubs this Trump tweet as only mostly false.
1:10.0	Come on, Politifact. If this guy's pants aren't on fire,
1:13.0	then he's wearing asbestos jod spurs.
1:16.0	He's wearing asbestos jod spurs.
1:20.0	It's like a Johnny Carson joke.
1:22.0	Trump got that fact on fox and friends.
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