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To the Point

Obamacare Gets a Health Check

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Despite providing insurance to millions of people, Obamacare is no guarantee of access to healthcare itself. Doctors, hospitals — and now some insurance companies — are dropping out of the program. We hear about what's gone wrong and how it's fueling the presidential campaign.  

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0:00.0

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0:12.9

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0:16.9

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:24.8

A health check for Obamacare.

0:30.6

Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:34.5

A daily look at the issues Americans got about most.

0:36.9

When the U.S. Supreme Court finally gave the Affordable Care Act the go-ahead last year,

0:41.1

President Obama called it a victory.

0:42.7

In America, health care is not a privilege for a few, but a right for all.

0:47.5

But there is still one system for the affluent and another for everyone else,

0:51.7

even though millions who were not insured can now buy policies.

0:55.7

More and more often, doctors and hospitals tell them, we don't take Obamacare here.

1:00.7

Now, some insurance companies are opting out of the program, and health care is a major issue in yet another presidential campaign.

1:08.4

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1:18.0

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1:27.3

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1:38.8

Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund.

1:45.7

Hello again, Marmonaulay, back with To the Point. Despite providing insurance to millions of people,

1:50.6

Obamacare is no guarantee of access to health care itself. Doctors, hospitals, and now some

1:56.2

insurance companies are dropping out of the program. We'll hear what's gone wrong and how it's fueling the

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