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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 872 Obamacare, Trumpcare, and Rand Paul: A Closer Look

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With several options on the table on a complicated issue full of technical details, I thought it was a good time to bring on an expert who could explain them all to us -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Show notes for Ep. 872

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 872.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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0:34.1

Hey, everybody, talking about health care today.

0:36.3

We've got this Republican plan. We've got

0:38.3

Obamacare. We've got Rand Paul's plan. And I thought I'd talk to somebody who can explain

0:44.5

the differences in all these different proposals to us. And that person is Dr. Jane Orient,

0:50.5

who is executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which you can

0:56.1

visit at AAPSonline.org. Dr. Orient has been in solo practice of general internal medicine since

1:04.7

1981, and she holds her MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Orient,

1:12.8

welcome back to the show. Thank you. When healthcare came back into the news and I realized I had to

1:17.8

figure out what the deal is with the Paul Ryan Republican proposal and the Rand Paul proposal,

1:24.9

I thought, all right, forget it. I'm going to get Dr. Orient on here, and she's

1:27.7

going to do all the work for us. So I looked at Rand Paul's thing this morning. It's not very

1:34.1

long. I have not looked at the actual bill that the Republicans are proposing. But can you tell me,

1:41.0

we'll get to later what the ideal proposal would be. Tell me if there are any merits to the

1:46.9

proposal being pushed by the White House and Paul Ryan, what would they be? The main thing that I

1:54.6

think would be good is that it gets rid of the individual mandates and the employer mandates

1:59.5

to purchase insurance. But the CBO is

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