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The Gist

Feet off the Couch, Please

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Alyssa Mastromonaco served as White House deputy chief of staff under Barack Obama. Her job was expansive—covering everything from interviewing James Comey to making sure the White House driveway was re-paved[AM1] . Now, she's written a memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House. In the Spiel, Republicans weren't able to come up with a better plan than "Obamacare bad." Failure was inevitable. Today's sponsors: Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. Try it today with $4 off when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at Keurig.comwith code TRYGMC. Policy Genius. Shop and compare all the top-rated life insurance companies in one place. Go to PolicyGenius.com today to save more than 40 percent off other prices for life insurance. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.4

It's Friday, March 24, 2017, from Slated to Digest, I'm Mike Pasca, repeal and replace,

0:14.8

defeat and disgrace.

0:16.6

And just remember, this is not a automobile, this is their bill.

0:19.5

Well, that's because yours wasn't a bill.

0:22.3

There was a bill, now there is a law.

0:25.2

A law, which flawed, does provide health insurance coverage for millions of American citizens.

0:30.5

You know that, right, Mr. President?

0:32.0

I've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically

0:37.6

speaking is let Obamacare explode.

0:41.6

And the collateral damage will be millions of citizens of the country of which you are

0:46.0

President.

0:47.0

Yes?

0:48.0

Yeah, well, not since the metric system went down hard in the 70s, have more people

0:50.7

been more pleased by a failure to reform a system that was more criticized.

0:55.6

Of course, back then, the CBO said the metric system would cost like 12,000 hectalitres

1:00.7

or something.

1:01.9

And Trump care was much, much worse than that, much worse.

1:04.7

Although, you know, I'm thinking about it, you know how the CBO said the bill would

1:07.6

cost 24 million people to lose health care and their publicans said, oh, that's not

1:12.2

true.

1:13.2

Well, now it won't.

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