Politics at the Oscars, and a Doctor’s-Eye View of Trump

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Two doctors describe how Trump’s policies may affect patient care, and a brief history of entertainers making political statements on Oscar night.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Today we're going to get a doctor's eye view of the Trump administration. Actually, two doctors. One works in a hospital
0:23.4	where the majority of the patients are white Trump voters, and the majority of the doctors are
0:28.3	immigrants, many from the countries that Donald Trump has just banned. And I'll talk with
0:33.4	Atul Gawande, a surgeon, and an extraordinary journalist about what a repeal of Obamacare might look like.
0:40.5	But we're going to start right here.
0:44.4	Thank you, thank you.
0:45.8	This is a moment of joy, and I want to kiss everybody because you are the image of the joy.
0:53.6	And he who kisses the joy as it flies and lives in eternity sunrise,
0:59.0	then said the poet.
1:00.0	And this is wonderful to be here.
1:02.0	Wonderful.
1:03.0	I feel like now really to dive in this ocean of gratitude.
1:10.0	This is too much. Your generosity is... to dive in this ocean of gratitude.
1:11.9	This is too much.
1:13.3	Your generosity.
1:17.6	And how do you say when the rain?
1:19.0	Wow.
1:20.3	What a flashback.
1:22.2	What am I listening to here?
1:25.5	Well, this is an iconic Oscar moment.
1:26.8	It's Roberto Benini.
1:30.1	Winning his Oscar for Life is Beautiful in 1999,
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