Bonus Edition #205 A Pandemic of American Myths
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Air Date 4/29/2020
Today, we discuss clips that highlight two of the most powerful American myths that consistently drive us into calamitous territory: the primacy of market-based solutions and hyper-individualism
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Public safety is built on latent capacity. We pay for people and equipment to stand idle, over-prepared for emergencies. We’ve left no latent capacity in health care.
Ch. 2: A whole new problem with a profit-driven health care system
Ch. 3: Pandemic, Protests and Profits - Reveal - Air Date 4-25-20
Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.
Ch. 4: A pandemic of individualism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | We have something a little bit different for you today. |
| 0:13.4 | We have two topics that we're going to cover and they are going to be magically revealed |
| 0:20.0 | to actually be related even though that will not be obvious at first glance. |
| 0:25.2 | Amanda is joining me. |
| 0:26.7 | Hey there. |
| 0:27.8 | We have two clips that we're going to play that are going to kick off conversations |
| 0:33.8 | and we'll tie it all together. |
| 0:35.4 | I think it's going to be fun. |
| 0:36.6 | So we're starting off with a clip from a show called Arm and a Leg, which was created |
| 0:43.0 | entirely to focus on the cost of healthcare in the United States. |
| 0:48.9 | And naturally they have pivoted to focus on the effects of the coronavirus on our healthcare |
| 0:56.6 | system. |
| 0:57.6 | And I heard this episode that I'm going to play a clip from and it highlighted an aspect |
| 1:06.5 | of our healthcare system and came at it from a brand new angle, which does not happen |
| 1:12.2 | very often. |
| 1:13.5 | So let's hear that and then we will discuss afterward. |
| 1:19.1 | A couple of weeks ago, someone tagged the show and retweeted part of a thread from a |
| 1:25.2 | Ryan Gamlin MD. |
| 1:27.4 | It turns out, before going to med school, Ryan spent about 10 years on the business side |
| 1:31.8 | of healthcare, working with insurance companies. |
| 1:34.3 | And in the thread, he had a story that tied together what he saw in his business days |
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