Can $1 Trillion Buy Us Better Healthcare? | Lanhee Chen

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Another policy deep dive episode that will make you a lot more knowledgable about our healthcare system and what's happening with Medicare. Lanhee Chen joins us to break down the $1 trillion component of Bernie's $3.5 trillion "human" infrastructure bill, which supposedly expands Americans access to Medicare. We also cover the funding challenges with the current Medicare program, better ideas to help the working poor, debunk some myths about Britain and Canada's single payer systems, and ask whether or not Obamacare lived up to its promise of equalizing healthcare access for all Americans.

Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D. is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. Follow Lanhee Chen on Twitter at @lanheechen.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are great.
0:04.0	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.2	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.4	Welcome back folks.
0:25.4	Another really interesting conversation upcoming here.
0:28.8	This is about your healthcare.
0:30.5	Look, it's dry.
0:31.7	It's hard to understand.
0:33.2	A lot of people don't.
0:34.1	People just want it fixed.
0:35.0	People just want it to be cheaper.
0:36.5	Getting to that point is incredibly complicated.
0:40.2	I understand the debate between Medicare for all
0:43.8	and the more free market approach that Republicans have
0:46.6	in what that means for your healthcare, what that means for prices.
0:49.5	And then everything in between that.
0:51.7	It's complicated and worth unpacking.
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