Geopolitics & the NBA; Fmr. Aetna CEO; The Evolving Data Economy

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The NBA is caught up in an international freedom of speech controversy; Joe Kernen, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Melissa Lee debate business interests in China and ask The New York Times’ Edmund Lee and The Verge’s Nilay Patel to weigh in. Former Aetna CEO and Chairman Mark Bertolini maps out the challenges for health care heading into the 2020 election. Plus, atoms or bits? MIT Principal Research Scientist Andrew McAfee argues that software has drastically changed the way our economy works.

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod, the daily podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:08.0	NYC, this is NBC Control 2.
0:10.0	See, NBC's essential morning show.
0:12.0	Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis. see facing backlash in China, Joe, Andrew, and Melissa Lee on Hong Kong and basketball.
0:24.5	The quest for freedom and everything that we have here can wait because we got some big dough
0:30.6	to earn over in China right now.
0:33.1	Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini on paying for health care.
0:36.4	We need to think about health as the opposite of poverty,
0:39.2	and poverty is the opposite of health.
0:41.4	And MIT Professor Andrew McAfee says we're doomed?
0:44.4	We're moving from an economy where Adams are central to an economy where
0:48.0	bits are central. How to make more from less in the modern economy. We've got those
0:52.4	stories and much more. I know you do. I know you
0:56.1	do. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. It's Monday, October 7th, 2019. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:02.0	Stand to enter by in three, two, one, you Andrew.
1:06.0	Good morning, welcome to Squack Box right here on
1:08.0	on C.
1:09.0	We're live at the NASDAQ Market site in Times Square Manager Ross,
1:12.0	working along with Joe Kernan and Melissa Lee who's hanging out with us this morning. Thank you for
1:16.1	being here. Becky's off today. Chinese officials are reportedly growing
1:19.3	hesitant to pursue a broad trade deal with the United States as talks are set to resume this week.
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