Obamacare and Reviving the Public Option
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has promised repeal of President Obama’s major achievement: the Affordable Care Act. Now even Obama is proposing a major change—the “public option” pushed by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Would that save Obamacare? Would it have a chance of passing the House and the Senate?
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| 0:30.7 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.8 | Obamacare, after Obama. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:48.8 | The Affordable Care Act is providing health insurance to millions of Americans who didn't have it before. |
| 0:55.9 | But the costs of drugs, |
| 1:00.9 | doctors, and hospitals continue to rise, and some insurance companies are hemorrhaging money. |
| 1:06.4 | While Donald Trump has promised repeal, Hillary Clinton would keep it, adding the so-called public option pushed by Bernie Sanders. Government financed plans would compete with private insurance, |
| 1:13.2 | but even if that would rescue Obamacare, would it be a non-starter politically? Today's |
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