Ep. 558 Medicare and Medicaid, 50 Years Later: The Awful Truth
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The real truth about Medicare and Medicaid and their true nature and consequences are completely unknown to most people. Murray Sabrin has just released a documentary on the 50th anniversary of their creation setting the record straight, and providing an alternative. Not to be missed!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 558. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:29.7 | tomwoods.com slash ebates. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the show. Murray Sabren is with us |
| 0:36.8 | today. Murray is a professor in the School of Business over at Ramapo College in New Jersey. |
| 0:43.2 | He's been in this fight for many, many years as a writer and a speaker and a political candidate and commentator. |
| 0:50.7 | And he joins us today to talk about his brand new documentary that you can watch online. We'll have it at |
| 0:57.1 | Tom Woods.com slash 558, Medicare and Medicaid, a 50-year retrospective. So let's talk to |
| 1:05.7 | Murray Sabren. Murray, welcome to the show. Thank you. Tom, it's a pleasure being with you. |
| 1:10.1 | I know the first time I met you was at the Mises Institute. We were, if I remember correctly, |
| 1:15.3 | we were both in line at the hotel desk, actually, to check into the hotel, and you struck |
| 1:20.8 | up a conversation with me. And then after that, I got to know you from a U.S. Senate campaign of |
| 1:26.9 | yours that I supported, and you have just been out there writing and speaking and fighting against corruption and ignorance in New Jersey, which must seem like a thankless task for many years. |
| 1:38.9 | Well, someone has to do it. That's my attitude. There's such a void here in the state of New Jersey. The Republicans in the legislature, except for maybe a handful, are really clueless. |
| 1:48.6 | In fact, many of them just voted 11 to 1 in an assembly subcommittee to reduce the smoking age in New Jersey to 18. |
| 2:00.2 | And that shows you that the Republicans are |
| 2:02.9 | totally in line with the Democrats about creating a comprehensive 90 state in the state of New |
| 2:07.5 | Jersey. Can you say something before we talk about the real reason I'm talking to |
| 2:12.5 | today? Can you say something about the real Chris Christie? Because the impression that we all got around the country was he's a tough guy because |
| 2:21.1 | he fought against the teachers' unions, and he's a real conservative, certainly by New Jersey |
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