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comes out on Mondays is just for patrons. And this week we talked to longtime friend of the panel,

Libby Watson, about the failures of the only six-month-long subsidy program that the Biden

administration set up to help cover people's insurance premiums if they lost their jobs under

Cobra. And we have a great conversation about why, even if you fuck up, you still deserve health care.

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local library and follow us at death panel underscore. Anyways, it feels great to be back, but so much has happened while

we were out on break. And today we have a big pandemic episode for you, where we will be catching

up on and addressing the COVID discourse of the last two weeks. Spoiler alert has been a total

mess, but we'll be hitting reset, trying to pick up where many have lost the plot. And I think,

you know, the bottom line is that everyone wants us to end. But to achieve that outcome, we actually

have to put collective pressure on the state to go beyond personal responsibility. And I don't

care how many times we have to say it. We're going to keep covering it as we move forward

throughout the pandemic. But before that, and honestly, this is kind of

also related. Before we get into the pandemic, I want us to address an incredible statement

that was given to the Washington Post on Saturday, July 9th by outgoing White House Communications

Director Kate Beddingfield, who was defending the urgency of Biden's response

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