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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Fighting Student Loan Debt/A Better Deal?

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to insurance expert Robert Hunter about another way toward a single-payer healthcare system: buy out the insurance industry. Attorney, Joanna Darcus, tells you how to fight for your rights against predatory student loan debt collectors. And we get Ralph’s take on the Democratic Party’s “Better Deal.”



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.6

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting ready to long.

0:10.4

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman

0:18.7

who, unlike Jared Kushner, for the entire show will be under oath.

0:24.0

Yes, and it will be an honor colluding with you gentlemen.

0:27.4

Okay, very good. And the man of the hour we also have, of course, Mr Ralph Nader.

0:32.1

Hello, Ralph. Hello, oh, do we have a show today? we also have of course Mr Ralph Nader hello Ralph

0:32.6

Hello do we have a show today one of it is very promising listeners are going to get

0:38.5

kick out of how these cruel so-called creditors got boomeranged on billions of dollars of student debt they couldn't prove they owned.

0:47.0

Yeah, we're looking forward to that and we are also going to continue our conversation about health care. this time from an insurance perspective, when

0:55.8

we welcome Robert Hunter from the Consumer Federation of America.

0:59.8

And as Ralph mentioned, we're going to delve into an issue that touches many young

1:02.8

people entering the workforce today student loan debt. We're going to do that with

1:07.6

Joanna K. Darkus of the National Consumer Law Center over the year she has

1:12.2

represented hundreds of low-income consumers sued by debt

1:15.2

collectors or struggling with student loans. And if we have some time, we're going to have a conversation

1:20.1

with Ralph about the Democratic Party's recently announced a better deal.

1:24.4

We'll try to break that down for you and also if we have time we'll try to get some

1:28.4

more listener questions but first we have discussed health care from many

1:32.0

different angles on this program. We've heard from doctors, nurses, business people and academics.

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