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Political Gabfest

Gabfest "EXTRA- the Health Care" Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the health care vote (or non vote) suspense. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.com/gabfest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Blood Cook Ab Fest from March 24th, 2017, a Gav Fest Extra,

0:13.3

extra extra extra.

0:15.7

It is Friday morning, the 24th of March.

0:19.9

We are awaiting a healthcare vote.

0:22.8

We didn't talk about healthcare on our main show yesterday.

0:25.7

We wanted to do an extra just about Ryan Care, Obamacare, Trump Care, Aka.

0:32.5

So we are going to do it today and if events change, we may do even more.

0:37.5

But we just want to do a quick update on what's going on.

0:41.0

John, we are taping now.

0:42.0

It's a little before 10 in the morning on Friday.

0:45.4

By the way, that's John Degers in the face of the National MLBASLON of the New York Times

0:49.3

magazine and I'm David Plott, so I'll subscribe.

0:51.6

Yeah, you know that.

0:53.5

Here we are at 10 a.m.

0:55.0

What is the process?

0:56.6

What does the process look to be for this bill today?

1:01.0

Well, the president has gone from supporting Trump Care to I Don't Care, which is the message

1:05.3

he sent to Republicans.

1:07.2

He stopped listening to their complaints and things they want put in the bill, particularly

1:13.5

those in the Freedom Caucus and he said, go vote for it.

1:16.5

And you, if you want to disappoint all the voters who sent us here, that's on you.

1:21.2

So it's the kind of last thing you can do in a negotiation, which is say, I'm going

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