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Episode 4487: Americans Continue To Not Be Able Afford Prescription Drugs

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 4487: Americans Continue To Not Be Able Afford Prescription Drugs 

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Meanwhile, Republican Senator Josh Holly is warning his own party over its push to make potential cuts to Medicaid.

0:06.6

In a guest essay for The York Times, Holly wrote in part this.

0:11.1

Mr. Trump has promised working class tax cuts and protection for working class social insurance, such as Medicaid.

0:19.8

But now a noisy contingent of corporatist

0:23.0

Republicans, call it the party's Wall Street wing, is urging Congress to ignore all that and get

0:28.7

back to the old-time religion, corporate giveaways, preferences for capital and deep cuts to social

0:36.0

insurance. The wing of the party wants Republicans to build our

0:40.1

big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor. But that argument

0:45.8

is both morally wrong and politically suicidal. We heard Josh Hawley actually saying something that

0:53.9

should be very obvious to most Republicans,

0:57.0

especially Republicans in deep red state America, whether you're in Missouri, whether you're in Alabama,

1:03.0

whether you're in Nebraska, wherever you are, Idaho, like Medicaid, Montana, Medicaid is a lifeline for those residents. And here you have Republicans

1:14.6

talking about slashing Medicaid to pay for, you know, billionaires' tax cuts on the coasts.

1:21.6

Which is why that big, beautiful bill has some big, unbeautiful problems, right? I mean, there's long been this

1:28.6

myth in the Republican Party that anything that smacks of the welfare state is only for voters of

1:34.5

color in Democratic cities. And as we know from as far back as that seminal book, What's the

1:40.1

Matter with Kansas? A lot of these programs, a lot of government assistance, goes to rural areas,

1:44.9

goes to red states. And that's a big problem in terms of passing this bill. I listened to that

1:50.0

clip you just played of President Trump saying he can't imagine any Republican being against it. I guess

1:55.1

he can't hear Josh Hawley's voice or read the op-ed page of the New York Times. But there is

2:00.2

disagreement in the Republican Party.

2:02.1

There's disagreement in the MAGA caucus. I mean, I write about this in a column that'll go up

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