CB--Oh no this health care bill is terrible too

Explain It to Me

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Education, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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A new CBO score on the latest Obamacare repeal bill pushes Sarah to the breaking point!Links:Follow along as Matt, Ezra, and Sarah read through the CBO reportGraphs comparing silver insurance plan costs under different health care bills for different income brackets White Paper: Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.0	We have like reached my breaking point on discussions on healthcare.
0:31.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias,
0:37.0	adjoined by Ezra Klein and Sarah Cliff. We are really excited to talk about healthcare for a change.
0:43.0	Sarah was saying this morning that we never really get to focus on the subject.
0:48.0	I might have reached my breaking point in how much I can discuss healthcare, which I didn't know existed until this week.
0:55.0	I can't say I can't tell you how surprised I was when Sarah came in here today and was like,
0:59.0	oh, like we're talking about healthcare again.
1:01.0	I didn't think we could get here, but here we are. It feels like actually eons since we taped to Fridays episode.
1:08.0	Because since then we have had the Congressional Budget Office report on the bill and we have had the vote delayed to an unknown date.
1:16.0	So it really feels like a lot has happened in literally four days.
1:19.0	Would you say your exhaustion of talking healthcare is a pre-existing condition?
1:23.0	God.
1:25.0	That's terrible.
1:27.0	Okay.
1:29.0	So we are going to talk about the CBO report that came on Monday.
1:33.0	We're going to talk about what is next for the BCRA, which we've never really decided.
1:37.0	The acronym never really stuck. We've never had a debate about how to pronounce that.
1:40.0	That has a strong view on this, I believe.
1:42.0	What do you think it is? You guys are young.
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