A Health Care Tale of Two States

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Washington and Connecticut set out to change health care in their own states using “public option” legislation. With the 2020 candidates discussing Medicare for All, these two states may serve as an example on the kinds of resistance the idea will meet in practice. Guest: Jordan Weissmann, writer at Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready, Jordan?
0:06.8	Yeah.
0:07.3	OK, cool.
0:08.4	Jordan Weisman is a writer here at Slate.
0:11.0	The guy I drag into the studio whenever I want to figure out something about the economy
0:15.3	or health care.
0:16.7	OK, so the Democrats are running on health care reform.
0:20.3	Can you sum up what that means?
0:24.5	No.
0:25.3	Sorry.
0:29.9	You have heard these talking points by now.
0:32.4	Medicare for all, Medicare for America, Medicare for anyone.
0:37.8	Health care is a human right, not a privilege.
0:42.2	The bottom line is we need to make sure that every American is able to get health care.
0:46.7	I support Medicare for all.
0:48.8	It is my preferred policy.
0:50.9	As a policy boy, you mean, not Bernie Sanders bill.
0:53.6	I support the bill.
0:57.0	There's a range, and then there are the people who are just seem to be getting attention
0:59.8	right now by saying single-payer bad is socialism bad.
1:03.2	They're trying to troll the lefties.
1:06.3	So what you're saying is we have options here.
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