Legends of the secret health care bill

Explain It to Me

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4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Sarah, Ezra, and Matt take the deepest look they can at Senate Republicans' secret health care bill, plus a quick look at Jeff Sessions’s non-answers on Russia and new research on the long-term impact of lead exposure.Links!White paper of the week from the Brookings Institution: New evidence that lead exposure increases crimeCaitlin Owens in Axios on the Senate GOP not releasing their healthcare billDylan Scott on what it would look like it Senate Republicans voted to repeal ObamacareDavid Leonhardt's New York Times piece on the half-hearted opposition to the GOP’s health care planJeff Stein's piece on the left's game plan for beating the GOP health bill9 legal experts weigh on whether or not Sessions can discuss his conversations with the presidentKevin Drum on lead's connection to violent crime and lower IQs in Mother Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Weeds is sponsored by The Great Courses Plus.
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0:14.3	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds and the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:31.2	I'm Matthew Galacious, we got Ezra Klein, Sarah Cliff with me.
0:36.0	We wanted to acknowledge at the top, we're recording this just as news has been
0:40.9	breaking of a shooting at a congressional softball game in Alexandria, Virginia.
0:46.4	It's obviously a big deal, a sort of horrifying event.
0:51.1	But also as of now, we don't really know anything about it.
0:55.8	If we were to discuss it on the show, it would just be kind of idle speculation, which I don't
1:00.9	think is really appropriate. So you know, check out Vox.com on the internet if you're interested
1:07.8	in real coverage and we're going to sort of move on with our regular plan.
1:13.6	You want to introduce into the first segment?
1:18.2	You know, the big news of the week has been a sort of odd policy story because
1:25.1	the Senate is making progress toward an Obamacare repeal bill. But the bill is secret.
1:33.4	And it's been, I think, challenging for journalists to give the attention to this issue,
1:41.0	that it really merits because the story isn't having the kind of like
1:47.1	marker points of a legislative news story that we're accustomed to.
1:52.2	Like there's no committee hearings, there's no public debate, there's no unveiling of the text.
2:00.0	And so a lot of the kind of normal news coverage isn't happening. But Sarah, like what do we know?
2:07.2	What's going on?
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