Beating the Healthcare System
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes investigative journalist, Marshall Allen, author of “Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win,” your "guerrilla" guidebook full of practical ways to keep your costs lower and your satisfaction higher. Plus, Ralph updates the Congress Club.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:13.5 | My name is Steve Scrovan, long with my co-host, David Feldman, a low David. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:19.4 | We are in January and the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and helpful and happy new year to everybody. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes, and we're going to try to help you get through the rest of 2022. |
| 0:30.6 | And we're going to start off with a bang on today's show. |
| 0:33.5 | We're going to turn our focus to another one of our favorite topics, healthcare. |
| 0:37.3 | We're often here politicians criticizing American healthcare as a, quote, |
| 0:42.0 | unquote, broken system. |
| 0:43.4 | What if it's not a broken system? |
| 0:45.4 | What if it only seems like it's broken because we're judging it as people with |
| 0:49.8 | feelings and hopes and self respect and respect for other people would? |
| 0:54.4 | What if it is, in fact, the very well functioning, inequitable, |
| 0:58.1 | prejudiced, undemocratic corporate system? |
| 1:01.4 | Marshall Allen is an investigative reporter and his new book never pay the first |
| 1:06.7 | bill. |
| 1:07.5 | He lays out the inner workings of the American healthcare system. |
| 1:11.4 | How it's designed to cheat customers, how it's designed to cheat consumers, |
| 1:15.8 | and how we can stick up for ourselves and get our money's worth. |
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